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to the eco system than any mine ever will be. The property your house sits on will never be productive as long as your house is there. But a mine, is always productive. During operation, and after reclamation.

I have tried to bring you this as balanced and objectively as possible. I hope to have informed and educated. Some of you could care less about these issues, but they are important ones. There is a lot of media hype regarding certain things, and hype can be more damaging than truth. A wise man once said, "eat the meat and spit the bones".

Works Cited:

Clem, Bill M. Gold and Silver Prospecting, Testing, Mining, and Processing. Tennessee: Tennessee Valley Publishing, 1993.

Mines, U.S. Bureau of. This is Mining. (Formerly) available at http://imgc.wr.usgs.gov/usbmak /thisis.html, 1994-95

Quotations from www.bartleby.com

Quotes by Abraham Lincoln:

QUOTATION: I have very large ideas of the mineral wealth of our Nation. I believe it practically inexhaustible. It abounds all over the western country, from the Rocky Mountains to the Pacific, and its development has scarcely commenced. Immigration, which even the war has not stopped, will land upon our shores hundred of thousands more per year from overcrowded Europe. I intend to point them to the gold and silver that waits for them in the West. Tell the miners from me, that I shall promote their interests to the utmost of my ability; because their prosperity is the prosperity of the Nation, and we shall prove in a very few years that we are indeed the treasury of the world.
ATTRIBUTION: President ABRAHAM LINCOLN, message for the miners of the West, delivered verbally to Speaker of the House Schuyler Colfax, who was about to depart on a trip to the West, in the afternoon of April 14, 1865, before Lincoln left for Ford's Theatre. Colfax delivered the message to a large crowd of citizens in Denver, Colorado, May 27, 1865.Edward Winslow Martin, The Life and Public Services of Schuyler Colfax, pp. 18788 (1868).

QUOTATION: Property is the fruit of laborproperty is desirableis a positive good in the world. That some should be rich, shows that others may become rich, and hence is just encouragement to industry and enterprize. Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another; but let him labor diligently and build one for himself, thus by example assuring that his own shall be safe from violence when built.
ATTRIBUTION: President ABRAHAM LINCOLN, reply to New York Workingmen's Democratic Republican Association, March 21, 1864.The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln, ed. Roy P. Basler, vol. 7, p. 25960 (1953).

QUOTATION: I take it that it is best for all to leave each man free to acquire property as fast as he can. Some will get wealthy. I don't believe in a law to prevent a man from getting rich; it would do more harm than good.
ATTRIBUTION: ABRAHAM LINCOLN, speech at New Haven, Connecticut, March 6, 1860.The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln, ed. Roy P. Basler, vol. 4, p. 24 (1953).

QUOTATION: As an individual who undertakes to live by borrowing, soon finds his original means devoured by interest, and next no one left to borrow fromso must it be with a government.
ATTRIBUTION: ABRAHAM LINCOLN, campaign circular from Whig Committee, March 4, 1843.The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln, ed. Roy P. Basler, vol. 1, p. 311 (1953).

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