2008-01-10_REVISION - C1981008 (2)

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.I from me for mine use. Sometimes it was 3 weeks before ?I would get to use the irrigation water. I have all of this documented as well as everything else. I have production records, dates of irrigation. I have documentation showing they would make us shut the water o$ for arguments with landowners, use for roads, or because they didn't think it needed for a week or so even though I was telling them completely different. They would pull my pump for use in the pit, so maybe I wouldn't have water on some of it for weeks at a time. Then they would wonder why production was down. j The topsoil is +ery big concern. A lot of our topsoil is BARX. This is some of the very best in this area. The mine made a big booboo and mixed road Base gravel in the topsoil that was to go tto B ns. They thought they would just let me rock pick it out. My rock picker doesn't do any ball size. So, for the xbooboo, they cane and got topsoil, our very best, and put another 18 inches on Bensons. When questioned, Lance said this is not a democracy, this is communism, those who have give and those who don't take. Most of the ground over there does not have anywhere near the type of soil we have. Some of our good topsoil goes to 74 inch depths. How can they take our Barx and ever replace it. We thought we would get our own soil back. This is a big controversy because they are taking some of our better soil and even use it on the dryland parts and lots and lots on Bensons. When it gets to the end, where does the Barx topsoil come from to put our ground back like it was? With the damages done to topsoil by just moving it, it will take years to put it back similar to what it was. But, if the mine uses it, where do we get it from? We have an excess of the good topsoil and it should not go to others, it should go back to us. i We do not want a Ladak alfalfa or birdsfoot trefoil planted on these 140 acres. We want a production alfalfa put back like it was. Just a legume is not good enough for any of our property. We plant between 15 and 20 pounds per acre with a 70 pound per acre cover crop of oats. We do not want any less. We fertilize 450 to 6MF?nds per acre, that's why we get the 5.5 to 6 tons per acre of production. We are the only ones rhis area that raise crops and alfalfa for production to sell only. They have three topsoil classifications. One for irrigatedlpasture, dryland, and irrigated dryland. What happened to our Barx and the cropland topsoil? There is great variations between soils here and on the eastern portion. There are great variations of soils on our place that is so much better than anywhere else. We should get the same soil back. Why are they mixing it? Why do they do top soil rain, snow, it doesn't matter? They are doing damage to even the bad stuff when they try this. We would like to have satisfactory answers to these concerns in writing, since no ones word seems to count for anything anymore. Whatever the mine tells you in person to get you to do something, doen't mean anything unless it's in triplicate and signed by everyone and then some. We would like them to honor what they have promised. We want than to get their bond release as quickly as possible and returnour lands to us as quickly as possible. If the mine puts down the right topsoil at the depths they should which ours is a minimum of 22 inches, and we can rock rake and rock pick it and level it and do our cultipacking and the land is put back as good as I have ever done on the mine prior to ours, and the production is there the 2" d and 3'd years, why