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andput our property back into production. We have not gotten one piece ofproperty put into <br />production. Since you were a part of this mine, you also help take our 196, 358 cubic yards of <br />Barx 2E soils that were stolen from us and put on the East side of 27 Road. These are prime <br />soils that cannot be taken from one property to another. We are one of the only ones in this <br />entire country that have the Barx 2E soils and these soils cannot be duplicated or replaced. Our <br />soils -were NEVER suppose to leave this place. <br />There has not been one farmer that has tried to shut the mine down, The Mercury issue has <br />nothing to do with us. There has not been one farmer to belittle a miner or try to eliminate their <br />jobs. Least of all us who has many family members employed. All we asked for is our soils to <br />be returned to us, and they were not. And if you had read the soil surveys and documentations, <br />you would have seen that our Barx soils were down 72 plus inches and we have pictures of them <br />15 plus feet Alfalfa is a deep rooted plant and so is corn and our root zone was down 25 feet <br />and it was not because they were searching for water. You should stick to driving you water <br />truck and blading because you know nothing about prime farmland or farming. <br />Mel Staats tore up his disk last year on the Benson property because of the huge ROCKs that <br />were in this so- called perfect reclaimed area that you speak of. And this year he tore up a brand <br />new land leveler on this same piece of property. Very expensive repairs. As to framers getting <br />new homes, new equipment because of the mine, there has not been ONE person here that has <br />done that. <br />W. And Mrs. Morgan has worked only on their farm their ENTIRE lives. They have hadno <br />other jobs at all at any time. They have made their farm pay for itself. We get 1500 ton of hay <br />off this place even without what is being mined and hay now sells for 300 dollars per ton and if <br />we wanted to sale it for that amount, figure it yourself Because of the mine, we have not gotten <br />any production off what is being mined for 10 years now. They dried it up two years in advance <br />of mining it. The Sunshine place was the prettiest place in the valley. Mr. Morgan did. not lease <br />it to the mine because of money. He leased it because the coal was there and we would have the <br />farm back and still be able to have cheap energy. But, in return, we want our soils returned to us <br />and this put back as good as or better than it was as the law requires. Not just partial, the entire <br />thing. And they stole our soils and they are not there to put back and we are not accepting the <br />Bench one material in place of our soils. <br />We do not believe that a new permit should be issued when they have never fulfilled their <br />obligations or followed the rules and regulations on the old permits. <br />James Jobnssons place was one of the prettiest places around us. It produced 319 ton of hay the <br />year WFC took possession. They removed the water out of the permit and permitted as <br />DRYLAND. Against the rules and regulations. What good is dryland to anyone? They bought <br />the Martin place that had been historically irrigated and cropped and permitted as dryland. But, <br />remember, I was there. I had two really good years of harvesting it after it was put back and then, <br />I was told- to-remove the water that the STATE had ordered WFC to turn it into drylarnd. I had <br />the rice trac beautiful and then I was told by WFC to take the water off that the STATE had <br />ordered WFC to turn it into dryland. This was also historically irrigated and cropped. The Lloyd <br />