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TABLE OF CONTENTS

PAGE 5-6 Cover Story, The Hull Family PAGE 7 Support Local Small Business

PAGE 8-9 Jerome Bunde, Part II PAGE 10 KWAL-Jack Wiegman, Part II PAGE 11 Support More Small Business PAGE 12 Feeding the Birds, Herb Pawlik PAGE 13 100+ Years Women’s Suffrage PAGE 14-18 David Bond/Hugo Salinas PartII PAGE 19 Floods in Silver Valley, Whiteside PAGE 20 Women in Mining PAGE 21 Timber & Forest Management PAGE 22-26 Tom Richards’ Idaho Forestry PAGE 27-29 School Teacher, Jean Vosberg PAGE 31 UofI Forestry Seminars PAGE 31, 33 and 36-37 Politics of Minerals & Forest Lands PAGE 38 Women’s Mining Coalition PAGE 39-44 Careers and Training PAGE 46 Remember John McConnell

MEET THE TEAM: Editor-In-Chief

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Editor/Publisher

Julie Lilienkamp

Contributing Writers Tom Richards David Bond Jack Wiegman Wally Whiteside Herb Pawlik Social Media Director Anton Hale Graphic Director Photography

Jacob Myong of Avenir Marketing Jodie Roletto

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Welcome EXPERTS-to YOUR Journal!

The Expert Business Journal was only a dream just over a year ago. This project was brought into fruition after many months of prayer and thoughtfulness of community and small business. It’s a platform for businesses to give and get advice, to tell their story of family history, educational business startups, and share photos and news. I created this for you, the small business person and for all those who have worked to make America what it is today. We are nothing without our forefathers and mothers. This edition will be honoring all the women who have worked hard to raise families and take on a job, for women making industrial work their career, and to keep in the game when the going gets tough.

We also honor our Veterans and active military, thank you for your continued service. We want to thank and honor all those who give back, like our Firefighters and Smoke Jumpers, and all the volunteers who keep our forests green. Thank you. Without the service of hard-working women and men, our future would not be. We encourage all to read through this edition and keep up on our online publication with new news and our career and jobs page. Please let me know if you have any documentaries, news realeases, videos, or family stories to share. I will be happy to visit with you.

We have another great testimonial to share, as well. North Idaho Maritime got a huge project from a family who happened to get the last summer edition of the magazine. She called me to thank me of the story and not just the ad, as this made her decision to hire the dockbuilders for her lake home and other work. This publicaion works.

Thanks to all the entrepreneurs and those in small business and here in the Northwest who have worked so hard over the years to make this a better place to live, work, and play. Salute!

Our success depends on your support . . .

Please send me your stories. Julie --Publisher Visit www.expertbusinessjournal.com or email julie@cannededitorial.com

“If you believe, you will receive whatever you ask for in prayer.” Matthew 21:22 (“Y todas las cosas que pidan en oracion, creyendo, las recibiran.”

San Mateo 21:22 )

Thanks a Hull of a lot: A Cheers to Women

business they had barely gotten off the ground when the mines shut down.

in Small Business and Industry

“I jumped in feet, arms, and body, starting

By Julie Lilienkamp, Writer and Author with the bookkeeping,” Marcy explains. “It was tough financial times. So, I decided to go face to face to each

Jack F. Hull and Marianne Starr Hull didn’t raise creditor and work out monthly payments—some even lazy kids. “They learned from their parents,” was the took a payment as low as $10 a month.” She smiled. guess. Jack a 3rd generation General Contractor in “It took seven years until we got things paid off. But Construction and Marianne a nursing instructor for we did it, with the help of family and friends—and of LPNs and CNAs in the Silver Valley, Idaho. Marianne’s course prayer.” family, the Starrs, are longtime Homesteaders of “One day, after many prayers to the Good Lord, Spokane and Sherman, Washington—better known to who always had our back, I told my mom, ‘the the grandkids as Grandma Laura and Grandpa Elmo, and the Hulls, Jack’s parents—Francis “Fat” Hull and amenities are not great here at the Molly B, we need Grandma Genevieve Johnson Hull made the Silver more than old black and white TVs, we need nice new Valley their home, namely Wallace, Idaho. color TVs to promote visitors, at the least.’”

Jack and Marianne (sounds like a song) have

three children, two boys and one girl--Marcy, John, and Mike. John chose industry as his career, now at B2 Gold, an off-shore procurement agency, but formerly with Northwest Mine Supply in Wallace, Idaho, for many years. Mike chose nursing as a career, a nurse and co-owner of Loving Care & More Home Health in the Silver Valley. Marcy, well, she’s our story.

Marcy attended school in Wallace Idaho with her siblings, then went on to college at North Idaho College, in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, about the same time the “big oil companies” decided silver was not a good investment any longer and pulled the plug on the mines in the Silver Valley [early 1980s], leaving Wallace, Mullan, Silverton, Burke, Osburn, Murray, Big Creek, Kellogg, Wardner, Smelterville, Pinehurst, Kingston, That same day, Marcy said, a semi-truck pulled and Cataldo, to name most of the small towns effected, into the parking area of the motel office and started in complete abandonment and economic ruin. Miners to unload 17 brand new color TVs. She asked for the were laid off, mines shut down, businesses closed and shipping slip and asked the driver too, but he and no some moved to the nearest city of Spokane, WA or one else could verify who or where the TVs had come Missoula, MT, but mostly, families moved and scattered from. The driver only said to her, “I’m just doing my to anywhere they could find work, leaving their homes work; I’m just the delivery guy.” Never did anyone to go back to the banks and Landlords without any find who had sent the TVs and to this day Marcy calls renters. Many claimed Bankruptcy, having to start over it a miracle. with nearly grown children and no way to send them to The struggles never ended there, however, college, causing ruin to some marriages, and everyday needs were still costing more than the family essentially changing the entire American economy. could afford.

“Back then we had electric heat, which if you know how that works, was far too expensive, and Life in the Silver Valley changed forever. the bill just kept getting bigger and bigger.” Marcy continues, “One day that winter, it was just before

There was no need for any contractors or Christmas, my cousins called asking we travel to construction any longer, so Jack Hull found little Oregon to my Aunt Lois’ for Christmas. While there work, and his wife’s nursing income was not enough she gave each of us kids $1000 for a gift. When we to sustain the three children and college for Marcy and returned home, the three of us agreed and equally her brothers, so Marcy felt a tug in her heart to move pitched in to pay off my parents’ electric bill—one of home and help with the most recent family investment/ their best Christmas gifts to this day.” business—to help run Molly B Damn, the small motel Continued on next page

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CONTINUED FROM PRIOR PAGE The economy had grown worse and worse, schools were merging and hospitals closing, specifically the Shoshone Medical Center and Elderly Care Home in Silverton, near Wallace and other small surrounding towns. That left little to no care for the elderly, and emergencies, except to travel to Kellogg—changing from going from 1.9 miles to the Silverton hospital to 14 miles to Kellogg with no EMT services available.

That wasn’t okay for Marianne, Mike, and Marcy. They knew something or someone had to help make a change.

So, they used one of the motel rooms to set up an elderly care center and started their next business, Loving Care & More. This time, all the relatives helped build the business, and soon every debt was paid in full for the Hulls, and Marcy’s brothers even got to finish college.

“I got the college of hard knocks, but that’s okay because I have learned more both in business and personally than I could have gleaned from going to school. I am an entrepreneur and I have a good close relationship with my family.” Marcy tells with pride and confidence in her voice. “I went to High School with Mike Hayman, but after I ‘really’ met and married [Mike Hayman] in 1989, we built together a family and numerous businesses, and invested with other relatives/ friends.”

The Hull-Hayman Clan currently own: LMJ Investments, Loving Care & More, Cooperative Care, Playtime Daycare, Mike’s Specialty Care, Hayman & Hull Properties, and Hayman and Maravilla Properties dba Metals Bar.

Marcy and Mike have two children together, no grandkids quite yet—they have one still in High School, living at home.

“I’d like to think,” Marcy goes on, “I can help by giving to my children and the ‘world’ a little advice my grandmother had always told me. ‘Find a niche and fill it, and you will never go wrong.’”

Marcy found her niche, right where no one could imagine, a small mining town that lost nearly everything.

With the help of people like Marcy and her family, small business is still the heart of America, it is what keeps America strong. Thanks Marcy for your courage, a big salute to you and all women who just keep the faith and keep going.

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Jerome Bunde, Wallace, Idaho

Remembering the Sunshine Miners and All Miners Everywhere . . . thank you for your hard work and sacrifice!

Mine History of the Silver Valley:

Jerome Bunde – Part II

By Julie Lilienkamp

Silver in the late 1970s had started to show promise, as there was a consensus and a “strong conviction that the silver market was facing a severe shortage of metal, and that prices were likely to rise sharply at some point. The market had been living off of investor selling for seven years. Prices had risen from the beginning of the decade, but there were serious questions as to how much longer investors would be willing and able to continue supplying silver to fabricators, at least at the prices seen in the mid 70s (silverinstitute.org).”

“The Hunt Boys’ interest in silver only grew too, and by 1979 they cornered the market,” Jerome Bunde explained and continued. “They put their money into the Sunshine Mine, along with E. Viet Howard, COO, and Bosworth, CEO. By 1980, when the market began to ‘overheat’ meaning there were no buyers, only sellers, the market crashed from $50 an ounce of silver to only $20/oz. The Hunt Boys settled their millions of shares at $10/oz. By 1981, Bunker Hill shut down, along with the Galena Mine, and finally the Sunshine Mine.”

The Sunshine Mine, in Kellogg, Idaho was an affiliation of Gulf Resources. For the history the Sunshine Mine, one of the world’s largest and most profitable silver mines, producing over 360million ounces of silver since 2001, visit www. sunshinesilvermining.com E. Viet Howard died striking a single tree in a car accident just 3-1/2 years following the closure, July 22, 1985, Eastbound on the old Interstate-90,

by Coeur d’Alene Lake, Idaho, (Spokesman Review, July 23, 1985). Other information on the Sunshine and Bunker Hill can be found at http://archiveswest. orbiscascade.org/ark:/80444/xv65328.

Bunde continued on about Hecla Mining Co. “Burke, Idaho’s Hecla Mining Company, incorporated in 1891, made conservative choices evading closure disasters. Dad Faust, Gus and Harry Votolini, Les Randall, Art Brown, Harry Magnuson, and Dave Elders, ‘a good mine boss’ for Hecla— to name a few, had a bit to do with the decision making. They all had stock in Hecla, and with Randall’s lead as CEO in the 50s, followed by Art Brown as CEO in the 60s, Hecla’s cash flow, along

with the Hunt Boys hitting a huge kidney size, high grade silver ore, Hecla got out of debt in 1978, under the direction of Phillips Baker. This then allowed the company to purchase the Golconda’s Gold Property Lucky Friday Mine, which opened in 1942. Harry Magnuson was and remained 13% owner, however, and carried his weight around the Valley. He bought up properties like the Jameson Hotel and Eatery, and directed the Northern Pacific Railroad Depot in Wallace, Idaho to be moved across the tracks to preserve the history. He even had the Idaho Governor in his back pocket.”

Bunde gave the remaining history in bits and pieces, but most of the information can be found online. “The Guggenheims,” a Swiss-Ashkenazi Jewish family of investors and a longtime history of East coast mining, “owned the Star-Morning Mine, until Hecla purchased or invested 60% of the stock.

Eventually, once Hecla paid off their loan to Bunker Hill, they then also completed the purchase of the StarMorning Mine, bought more of the Hunter Vein, next to the Lucky Friday, and sunk thousands of feet of more shafts in the Lucky Friday,” which is an ongoing project to this day. Hecla is now 100% owner of the Lucky Friday Mine, and celebrating 125 years in business. Phil Baker, CEO shares the story of the new “2016 #4 Shaft Project, which should give another 34+ more years of life” to the Lucky Friday Mine and employment opportunities for the Silver Valley residents.

Visit www.hecla-mining.com or

www.KXLY.COM (m.kxly.com/news/hecla- mining-digs-massive-expansion-of-lucky-friday-

mine/39691354 for more information.

Jerome Bunde retired from Pennaluna in 2014, and lives with his beautiful wife and writer, Carleen Bunde, in Wallace, Idaho, enjoying visits from their children, grandchildren, and now great¬-grandchildren. # # #

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KWAL :Making a Small Community Great

Part Two from July 2015 Mining Edition (see Read Journal at expertbusinessjournal.com)

by John “Jack” Wiegman Much in media is mere bravado. You know the drill; “We’re the best.” “We’re making lives better.”

Shoshone County’s KWAL has always been a step above mere cheerleader claims. Its staffers earned international notice. One of the nation’s forty oldest continuous broadcasters, KWAL submerged itself into the community and became the representative to the world passing through on US Highway 10 later renamed Interstate-90.

Risk is all too real. KWAL is the quick information hub to report disasters and to alert responders. There was the big fire at the Sunshine Mine that killed 91. Huge smokestacks at the Bunker Hill Company were built and destroyed. There were unions and strikes.

In 1974, heavy winter snows quickly melted in unusually warm weather. The Silver Valley Flood was officially declared a disaster. With no cellphones in existence, KWAL was uniquely mobile and equipped with the latest shortwave gear. A large telephone without wire connection arrived courtesy of GTE. Amazing! Staffers directed emergency responders including bulldozer operators, Army Reserve, service clubs and Boy Scouts. Government officers later said that KWAL staffers were the key factor in preventing loss of life. The station did so well that its crew was honored by Idaho governor Cecil D. Andrus.

This writer was hired in 1967 as KWAL Chief Engineer to handle complex electronics and antenna system. The job expanded to full-time announcer, Sales Representative and News Director. The work was fascinating!

Young Jack Wiegman “Mr. KWAL” Radio Voice of the Silver Valley

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KWAL reporters caught EPA, DEQ, PHD and CDC in misdeeds.

Newspapers usually outsell all radio and TV by a factor of eight. Not so in the Silver Valley. By 1970 KWAL was earning twice the income of its two local print cousins. The station had more community penetration in its market area than any Spokane or Missoula broadcaster in theirs.

Broadcast engineering is a trade that requires innovation. We received national recognition for the Set-And-Forget Phone Patch, now used worldwide.

Other inventions include a forerunner to the famous Paintball(TM) game. The concept was also used to help teens and pre-teens battle a disease called amblyopia.

The KWAL-era invention that gives me most satisfaction is a replacement for the common wool scarf. Only two-feet long and three-inches wide, this flannel device is about the size of three packages of gum and stores in your shirt pocket. The Warmneck is used as safety gear in open-pit mining and logging because it stays put in cold weather with no loose ends to tangle in conveyor belts. Before Warmneck, a conveyor belt could snatch loose clothing and choke the worker or throw him/her into the jaws of machinery.

Warmneck is just fine for school kids on cold days, too.

But, wouldn’t you know it; this apparel is now made in China and I get no money. Sigh! There was no money from any of these.

KWAL’s Phil Johnson invented one of the first transistorized portable remote microphone amplifiers for sportscasts. Other KWAL innovators include Vern Peters, Grover Allen, Phil Johnson, Gordon Burdick, Buddy Pickolick, Jim Kundtsen, Greg Bilte, Frank Krshka, Paul Robinson and David Nesbitt.

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Antibacterial or antimicrobial – that is the question

By Herb Pawlik, Wild Birds Unlimited, Cd’A

We all have seen and used antibacterial lotions and potions to clean our hands – at the doctor’s office, in hospital hallways, schools, grocery stores and many other public places. Some of those products have found their way into our homes to help us get rid of those pesky germs. Bleach as the bacteria killer of choice has taken a back seat to those more versatile, but less cumbersome, antibacterial protectors. Aside from those tangible antibacterial protections today, we have been surrounded by an ever increasing number of antimicrobial protectors.

Aside from those tangible antibacterial protections today, we have been surrounded by an ever increasing number of antimicrobial protectors in almost every aspect of our daily life. They have pushed their way in, and we didn’t even notice it.

Many responsible manufacturers have successively included antimicrobial protection in cellphone shells, computers, keyboards, shoes, clothing, shower curtains, cutting boards, pens, water filters, faucet handles, paints, and the list goes on and on.

So, what’s the difference?

Antibacterial protection is a surface coating which wears and washes out, needs to be replenished. It is only effective against bacteria and germs.

Antimicrobial protection, in stark contrast, inhibits growth of a multitude of microbes, such as, bacteria, mold, mildew, yeast, and fungi. It is “built-in”, embedded in the material itself and therefore ‘works 24/7’. It does not need to be renewed or reinforced.

How do they do that? Modern science has discovered Mother Nature’s antimicrobial: silver ion. Adding silver ion to everyday items will combat microbes in three ways: 1. disrupt their metabolism (starve them), 2. inhibit their cell division (sterilize them), and 3. block their oxygen intake (suffocate them).

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CELEBRATING 100 YEARS . . .

SUPPORTING WOMAN SUFFRAGE “A Battle for Women’s Rights Won (TIME Magazine, America 1914-2014) Even as technology forced rapid change in the tempo of American life, battles for social change often moved at a glacial pace. It was in 1848 that farsighted U.S. women first met in a convention at Seneca Falls, N.Y., to call for equality for their gender—in the home, in the world of business and at the ballot box.

For decades, suffragists organized, argued and lobbied for the vote. In 1916, women marched in New York City” . . . and other cities around the country requesting the support of President Woodrow Wilson. Still little progress for change was made. The battle continued, and finally in 1919 Congress passed the 19th Amendment to the Constitution, which gave women the right to vote, ratified in 1920. The fight continues, however, with wage and fair treatment of women in the workplace. Continue to support women in industry, get involved with your state’s political figures, write letters, and petition for equality. The fight is not over.

PF- 6-20 - A worker processing apples at Seiter’s Cannery in Post Falls. Photo Courtesy of Museum of North Idaho.

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HUGO SALINAS interview by David Bond -- Continued from 2015 ed.

Hugo Salinas: It was a series of happy accidents that happened to me, and I’m amazed that I survived because I was 20 years of age when I started. I didn’t know a damn thing. I’ve never been a very hard worker. I’ve been more of a thinker, and I still am a thinker more than a man of action. So, I’m amazed that we survived.

Now, we were rolling along very well in 1988. At that time, I was 56 years old and my son was working with me. He’d been working with me for eight years, and he knew everything that was going on. He and the systems manager were the only two people in the company that really knew the whole thing. He was aware of every detail.

David Bond, Writer/Editor--Wallace Street Journal

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So, one time we were having a meeting and without any previous thought or consideration, I got up from that meeting and said, “Well gentlemen, I’ve got to take a plane. I’m leaving you. This will be the last meeting I’ll be attending. My son here is going to take over the business. Cancel all my powers of attorney, my signatures on the checks. Thank you very much and goodbye.” It was a bombshell. Well, I’ve never regretted it because my son, Richard, is a very capable man and an excellent executive, and he is taking the company very much ahead.

Then, what happened, we continued to grow.

In 1993, when he already had been running the company five years, we had already gone public.

He was scheming to buy the number two television chain, which was owned by the government, and they were privatizing. There were about four groups interested, and he was scheming to participate. I said, “Well, gee whiz.” He said, “Well, how much do you think we should pay?”

I said, “Well son, whatever you pay will be worth it.”

The result was that my father and I, who were the partners in the business, we everything we had, every bit of it, to get the credit.

My son scrounging around and getting credits right and left, and pretending that he didn’t have but a small amount, entered the bid. Lo and behold, when the envelopes were opened, ours was the winning bid. So, that’s how we got into television, which we’re still in today. Finally, the debts were paid off and we got our stock back, liberated, thank goodness.

Subsequently, in 2003, we got a banking license. Since all our accounts were on a computer, it was very easy to pass everything over to the bank, and the bank took over the financing of our accounts receivable and received funds from the public. So, we had no more financial problems of getting funds to finance ourselves and, to date, we have spare funds. The bank has more than enough to finance us.

So, that’s the story, and an important part of the success was that I got out of the way. I got out of the way at the right time.

David Bond: From that experience, what drew you into the silver story?

Hugo Salinas: What happened was that in 1995, we had a terrible crisis of the usual kind. The government was spending too much. All of a sudden, it became apparent that the banks did not have the funds to repay the dollar debts, and so we had a terrible crisis.

That got me to thinking, why do we have these recurrent crises? What’s the problem? Well, the problem is that we don’t have real money. As long as we don’t have real money, we are going to be stuck with continual devaluation and destruction of earnings and destruction of businesses and instability. So, I began to think about silver, which had been the money of – the first mint in the western hemisphere was established in Mexico City in1535.

David Bond: 1535?

Hugo Salinas: Yes sir, 1535. We began to mint coins for Spain. Under the instructions of the Spanish crown, we minted silver for the Spanish empire. Huge amounts.

The interesting thing about this was that under monarchy, you have stability. I’m a monarchist; I’m not a Democrat. I think that authority must come from above and cannot come from below. I know it’s heresy today but that’s the way I think.

Continued on next page.

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Continued from prior page (Salinas) David Bond: I don’t think it’s heresy, Hugo.

Hugo Salinas: It is heresy. It’s my way of thinking and I think it’s realistic. Why, I will tell you now. In 1535, we were using a coin with about 24 grams of silver in it.

David Bond: The doubloon, right?

Hugo Salinas: I don’t know what you would call it.

It was the piece of eight.

David Bond: Okay, pieces of eight. You bet Hugo Salinas: Eight reals. I think that comes from the Arab word, the real. It comes from Spain because they had the Moors there for seven centuries. So, that’s why they used the word real. It’s spelled with an E. REAL. Anyway, this is a piece of eight. Sometimes, people would cut the coins up into eight parts and use the parts of the coin as money. But anyway, the interesting thing is that when my father was born, he was born in 1907. In 1907, the silver money that circulated in Mexico was essentially the same coin that had been minted originally in 1535. It still had 24 grams of silver.

Imagine that! From 1535 to 1907, that’s almost four centuries of monetary stability. We didn’t have inflation and we didn’t have deflation. Mexico became a very strong country, and that’s why the United States invaded us because they didn’t want a strong country down here. Because we had an invasion first – well, I won’t get into.

David Bond: I wish you would, actually.

Hugo Salinas: That is the problem. As our last wonderful excellent dictator, Porfirio Diaz, said, “Poor Mexico. So close to the United States and so far from God.” David Bond: Wow. Hugo Salinas: Anyway, our problems begin with the U.S. coming down to counsel us on monetary affairs.

Eventually, we wind up with a central bank installed in 1925. Since then David Bond: Oh, just like the U.S. Fed in 1913.

Hugo Salinas: That’s the same, the same thing. So, we’ve been on paper – ever since our revolution, we really never recovered from our revolution that started in 1910, when Porfirio Diaz went to meet with President Taft up at – where was it – well, there was a meeting there.

David Bond: Jekyll Island?

Hugo Salinas: No, it was on a bridge over the Rio Grande.

Hugo Salinas: It was a meeting between Taft and our president on the bridge, and they talked over the problems. When our president came back, he was reported to have told his general staff, who was there to hear what had transpired, he said, “All is lost.” In other words, he knew the United States did not want him as a president and they wanted him to go.

In 1910, in San Antonio, Texas, a Mexican whose name was Madero declared the start of the Mexican

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Revolution, of course with U.S. money. So, we had our famous Mexican Revolution. It was really a regime change operation with which we’ve become familiar in these times, regime change.

When the United States doesn’t like somebody, they install a regime change and they start a revolution, and sooner or later whoever’s there – Khadafy was one of the victims of such a regime change operation.

So, we suffered that in 1910, and the revolution went on because when Diaz left, he left a power vacuum. There was a struggle between individuals for the presidency. The U.S. ambassador demanded certain things and when the president in turn did not accede to those things, there was another regime change. This went on and on and on.

David Bond: Sounds like the U.S. and the Middle East in, what, 1952, when we threw out the Iranian elected.

Hugo Salinas: Yes, it’s the same thing. Anyway, the result is that we’re now on paper, with all the vicissitudes of that. Our best schools are modeled on MIT. We want to be as good as the Americans, and so we teach them the same lies and the same falsity. So, these young men come out of the universities thinking that they are economists and that they are fit to run the country. Some of them eventually get into positions of power, as our present finance minister, and they run the county as if it was a machine that if they push the right buttons and pull the right levers, that they’re going to get the results they want.

Well, human society is not a machine, and such an attitude simply does not work. And on paper money, also, nothing can be stable. So, this was the reason that I got to thinking about silver and eventually came around to, how can the silver coin be reinserted into the economy when everybody is using fiat?

One night, the idea came to me finally. It has to be a coin that has no monetary value stamped on it.

It just has a quoted value based on its silver content and the price of silver. If the price of silver goes up, the quoted value of the coin goes up. Because, you see, what happened to silver all over the world in the 1950s, many countries in the world used silver for their coinage.

David Bond: Sure. Let me interject that a good reason to use silver in trade was that you couldn’t compromise it. It could sail across the Mediterranean Sea or across the Atlantic and it would not be value.

Hugo Salinas: That’s right. Correct. But when paper came in, you see, and the coin was worth, say, we had a 1-peso coin. It had only 12 grams of silver, not the 24. But when they started printing, by about 1945-46, the price of silver in pesos was more than 1 peso in the 1-peso coin. You understand what I mean?

David Bond: Yes. There was a big run on them right then.

Hugo Salinas: A 1-peso coin was worth more as bullion and melted down than it was worth as a coin. So, that’s why all over the world silver money disappeared because inflation inflated the value of the currently to such an extent that the silver coinage had to be melted down. It couldn’t be used as money any more because the content was worth more than the face value.

So, the solution to that is to have no face value.

Have a coin with no face value and you have a quote for it, then it can float. It will remain as money in savings. It will not be used for commercial transactions because people don’t want to but they could if they needed to, could use that coin at the quoted value in a commercial transaction.

David Bond: Which is the same as buying wheat or rice or anything else.

Hugo Salinas: Yes, except that it’s much more tradable. You can’t go to the market with a bushel of wheat and expect to get shoes for it, let’s say, or other merchandise. Silver is money because, next to gold, it’s the most tradable commodity there is.

That’s the reason that they are money, gold and silver, because they are the most tradable commodity.

Gold is unquestionably much more tradable than silver, but silver follows gold.

David Bond: I’ve got an old friend here, Jerome Bunde, who says, “Gold is the money of kings and silver is the money of the working man.”

Hugo Salinas: That’s true. Silver can even be complemented with copper because in certain times, even a small silver coin is much too much to go buy

Conclusion of interview on next page

eggs with; it’s worth too much. So, you have copper coins, but they are complementary to the silver coin, to facilitate small transactions. The smallest transaction is copper. Next larger transaction, you want to buy a chicken or you want to buy some larger items, silver. But you want to buy a house, you go to gold. Anyway, as I mentioned, by not putting a face value on the coin, but giving it a monetary quote, that would be the way to insert silver into any monetary system.

I think that at present, Russia, who is being provoked by the United States into war, right now they are doing aggressive things to defend themselves.

They could also do something that would attract public sympathy of the Europeans towards Russia.

That would be, for Russia, to issue a silver coin with a quoted value, and then the Europeans would just love to have that coin.

You can see, this is not an economic measure. It would be a political measure to garner sympathy and support for Russia as a European power, not as an

enemy. I think that that would help Europe head off a war with Russia, and integrate its commerce with Russia, which is what the United States does not want.

David Bond: No, they do not.

Hugo Salinas: I can’t tell you the name of the person who said this because I just read it and I forgot who said it, but the high official of the United States once said about NATO, “The real purpose of NATO is, 1.to keep the Americans in Europe; 2.

To keep the Russians out of Europe; 3. To keep the Germans down. That’s the purpose of NATO.” Of course, all of Europe is now under NATO, so Europe is practically helpless. They’ve become vassal states. * * * * *

Floods of the Silver Valley, Idaho

Zanetti Property, Osburn, Idaho 2015

Oldest House in Osburn, Idaho, Whiteside Property

By Teacher, Wally Whiteside, M.S.

This summer (2015) has been busier than usual. The house next door, 403, is the oldest house in Osburn, Idaho. The original homestead cottage was built in 1891, a year after Statehood.

Because the original home is so old, the supports beneath the floor were rotted away. I did not want restorative work to be pursued from a crawl space. Instead, I chose to excavate the basement with my son, Lane, standing to work, so that reconstructive work would and could proceed.

Removal of material from beneath the house had to be removed bucket by bucket, because there was no access for machinery. As we worked sweat drop by sweat drop, we made a couple of prehistoric discoveries in the virgin soil.

The soil: First, I was able to determine that about six thousand years ago there was a gigantic forest fire which deposited almost an inch of black carbonized charcoal. Second, when setting the 6’ X 6’ posts, eight feet vertical, and excavating an additional three feet into the floor we were surprised to uncover a bed of pure sand of unknown depth. Even more surprising was finding numerous amounts of gold flakes in two of our post holes.

Between the charcoal and the sand layer lies an approximate five foot thick boulder and gravel bed. The physical relation of the overburden to sand layer indicates an enormous amount and force of water.

The water: I am aware and studied the Great Missoula Flood, and the many years before its happenings being unquestioned. It is my contention that the same thing occurred in the SilverValley, Idaho.

I believe that during the Ice Age, a glacial dam formed, probably in the narrow canyon between Pinehurst, Idaho and the Snake Pit Restaurant and Pub in Kingston, Idaho--just a few miles up the Coeur d’Alene River. It is my contention that the dam turned this valley into a lake. Sand accumulated and settled for many thousands of years, displacing and allowing “floating” gold flakes and other debris from Placer Creek deposit to settle in Osburn.

To support this theory, it is a fact that at the end of World War II, six million dollars in gold was extracted from the east end of Osburn, now the Zanetti family and business property. This above “washout” or deposit area of land was owned by Grace Altermott in the 50s – 60s and later sold to the Drager family in the 70s, very near current day Coeur Mine. That explains why the Zanetti property is fourteen feet lower than the “old” highway—and editors guess the EPA’s interest in the Silver Valley.

Finally, when at last the climate warmed, the glacial dam broke and the lake rapidly drained.

The out flow dislodged loose moraineal deposits and covered the lake bed sand.

Who knows today what one can find in the soils of the Silver Valley . . .

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A History of Idaho Forest Industries and

most of his own savings buying his partners out, and was left with nothing. the AtlasTie Company by Tom Richards

Durdy had already had some success using the Atlas Tie mill during winters, so he made a proposal Part III (Continued from EBJ Winter 2015/16) to J.S. Richards, president of Atlas. Alpine lumber continued to purchase logs and used a year-round Jack Durdy night shift at Atlas to produce lumber. Alpine sold all Jack Durdy was born on January 8, 1919 in of its Douglas Fir logs to Atlas for use in railroad ties, Coeur d’Alene. His grandfather, Frank James, designed and built Weyerhauser’s Rutledge mill, and Alpine produced lumber with the other species. and Durdy worked summers at the mill when he was This arrangement also helped the two companies to growing up. During World War II, Durdy saw the keep track of log ownership, as they shared log storage military using small, portable sawmills in Europe. areas. Out of this proposal the R and D (RichardsThese mills could be easily transported from one site to another and set up quickly to produce lumber Durdy) Lumber Company was formed. R and D was for various military needs. When Durdy returned a 50/50 partnership with Atlas Tie providing most to the U.S. he discovered that the military was of the capital and Durdy providing sawmill and log selling the portable sawmills as surplus. He found purchasing expertise. R and D Lumber produced and two partners, Jim Kochel and Phil Graue, and they each put up $2,000. They borrowed another $6,000 sold lumber for the next 10 years without ever owning a sawmill of its own. from Idaho First National Bank to purchase one of the surplus sawmills and established the Alpine Durdy came to be more and more involved in Lumber Company. Neither of Durdy’s partners decision-making at Atlas Tie through the 1950’s. were lumbermen, so Durdy was the sole partner that Bert Goettel was continuing to sell the output of actually worked in the mill. both companies from the Richards-Goettel Lumber In the spring of 1946 Alpine Lumber’s portable Company office in Spokane. Durdy and J.S. Richards sawmill was set up on a piece of land near Mud Bay on Coeur d’Alene Lake owned by a Mr. agreed that a more aggressive sales approach was Finnebot. That summer Alpine cut and processed needed, so they hired Ivan Hanson, a sales agent with 300,000 board feet of timber. Production was all Potlatch Forests, Inc., and set up a sales office in “dimension” lumber, meaning construction lumber Coeur d’Alene. Durdy also encouraged Atlas to invest two inches and thicker. Pine logs were sawn into in dry kilns to produce dry lumber. The kiln was timbers which were then shipped to Atlas Tie’s sawmill to be resawn into boards. When the purchased in 1955 for $30,000, an investment that was Finnebot property was cut out, Alpine relocated their paid off within one year. mill to a site near Fernan Lake. The following year In 1961 Durdy formed a new partnership with the company purchased 160 acres on the east side of Atlas Tie, purchasing the Ryan Tie Company in the lake. That summer, as the CIO-IWA strike went Fernwood, Idaho, and renaming it the Fernwood Tie on at the Atlas Tie mill, Atlas sent logs to Alpine’s mill to be cut. J.S. Richards at Atlas Tie had some Company. R-D Lumber Company ceased operation key customers that he wanted to continue to supply at this time. Durdy oversaw the Fernwood mill as through the strike. Atlas took the rough lumber well as the logging operations of Atlas Tie, including from Alpine’s sawmill and had it surfaced at the a log landing on the St. Joe River and the log yard at E.C. Olson plant in Spokane. The deal was a huge help to the fledgling Alpine Lumber Company, as it the Atlas sawmill. He continued in these roles until meant that the company did not need to find capital the various companies merged with the DeArmond to buy log inventories. Both the size and location of Lumber Company to form Idaho Forest Industries. the Alpine mill made it impossible to operate in the DeArmond winter, so Durdy worked out a deal with Atlas to so The DeArmond stud mill in Coeur d’Alene, currently that Alpine could operate a night shift at the Atlas a part of Idaho Forest Industries, was founded as the mill during winter shutdowns.

In 1948 Kochel sold his share of the company to DeArmond-Joyner Lumber Company in 1958 by Durdy and Graue. In 1950 Graue moved to Chicago Bob and Dick DeArmond and William Joyner. The and sold his share of the company to Durdy, who DeArmond brothers grew up in central and southern became the sole owner of Alpine Lumber. In the spring of 1951 he secured a contract for some white Oregon and learned the Ponderosa Pine business from their father and their uncle, David and J.L. (Lester) pine timber and began his first real production run of white pine lumber. Shortly after that the mill, DeArmond. The two older DeArmond’s built their as well as an inventory of white pine lumber, was first sawmill in 1923 in Riddle Oregon. Like completely destroyed by fire. Durdy had used up

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most mills in the area, the mill cut large Ponderosa Pine logs. The lumber was air-dried and sold unsurfaced, with high grade material going to moulding, door & sash plants, and low grade going to box factories. The mill in Riddle was eventually sold and the family moved to Swan Lake, where David and Lester each ended up building their own mills.

David’s mill, the Lakeview Lumber Company, burned in 1944, and he moved to Medford with his two sons. He formed a partnership with Bob Dant, of the Dant & Russell steamship line, purchased a block of timberland and founded the Pacific Lumber Company in Riddle. Unhappy with Dant’s management, David DeArmond sold out in 1952.

A new niche in the lumber industry was developing at that time – the manufacture of studs used as uprights in framing walls. David was aware that Cheney Lumber in Cheney, Washington was pioneering this market successfully, and he decided to help his sons get started in the stud business. In 1953 the family built the DeArmond Brothers Stud Company in Rogue River, Oregon. Bob & Dick DeArmond ran this mill with their father’s oversight, and in 1958 they began looking for a second stud mill. Marvin Wing & Hank Diemling had

had just built a stud mill in Coeur d’Alene. The mill was purchased by the DeArmond’s with Bill Joyner as a partner. Bill had worked for Pacific Lumber in Riddle before moving to Grangeville, Idaho, where he had managed a stud mill. He then moved to Coeur d’Alene to run the new DeArmond-Joyner mill.

Producing studs was a different process from the production of railroad ties, or the production of pine boards. Stud mills were designed for speed & efficiency to take advantage of the fact that they made only one size of lumber, an 8’ 2 x 4. Douglas Fir logs entered the DeArmond-Joyner mill, were cut by two different saws and the lumber was fed directly into a planer. From the planer the lumber was hand-stacked in a box car, often less than 5 minutes from the time that the log entered the mill.

DeArmond-Joyner added a dry-kiln in 1960 which allowed them to cut white fir logs. By this time Bob & Dick DeArmond had sold the DeArmond Brothers mill in Oregon and had moved to Coeur d’Alene.

William Joyner’s former partners in Grangeville, Idaho moved their sawmill to Plummer, near the south end of Coeur d’Alene lake, and purchased timberland in the area. They soon ran into financial difficulty, and CONTINUED ON NEXT PAGE . . .

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DeArmond-Joyner took over the mill and timberlands in the early 1960’s. The Plummer mill was not well-equipped, but the timberland gave DeArmond-Joyner a good source of fir logs. Logs were simply squared into large cants at the Plummer mill, then shipped to Coeur d’Alene for processing at the DeArmond-Joyner mill.

Idaho Forest Industries: J.S. Richards had twin sons, William Thomas (Tom) and John Morgan Richards. The twins both earned MBA’s at Harvard University in 1961 and returned home to begin work in the lumber business. John initially lived in Fernwood, overseeing Fernwood Tie. Tom began work in the Atlas Tie mill. In 1964 Atlas entered into a joint-venture with Carolina-Pacific, a plywood firm. The joint-venture purchased the site of the former St. Maries Lumber Company sawmill, which had burned in 1961, and built the St. Maries Plywood Company. John Richards oversaw production at the new plywood mill.

In 1965, Carolina Pacific sold their interest in the mill to Potlatch Forests. Potlatch also purchased half of Atlas’s shares, leaving Atlas Tie with 20% of the St. Maries Plywood Company stock. Atlas continued as a partner with Potlatch, and Richards continued to run the mill.

In the mid-1960’s the Russell & Pugh lumber company in Harrison, on the east shore of Coeur d’Alene Lake, ceased operation and put 30,000 acres of timberland up for sale. The new generation of the Richards family was interested in expanding Atlas Tie into timberland ownership. The two DeArmond brothers were also interested in adding more timberland to the DeArmond-Joyner company, but neither company was in a position to buy such a large tract of land. Atlas Tie approached Potlatch, the company’s partner in the St. Maries mill, and the three companies formed the Harrison Timber Company, with ownership equally divided between Potlatch, Atlas Tie and DeArmond-Joyner.

Harrison timber purchased the Russell & Pugh timberland and hired Charlie Rogers to oversee the timber operations.

The Harrison-Timber partnership proved to be very beneficial to all three of the owners. Each of the various mills involved had very different timber needs. Atlas Tie was moving more into pine and cedar production. DeArmond-Joyner was mainly interested in smaller fir logs for stud production, while the St. Maries Plywood mill required larger fir logs. Logs from the Harrison Timber Company lands were divided according to these needs.

In 1968 Potlatch purchased Atlas Tie’s interest in the St. Maries Plywood mill. Potlatch had established two other plywood mills in northern Idaho, and they wanted John Richards to oversee all three of these operations. Richards stayed with Potlatch, eventually being promoted to chairman and CEO of the company. Atlas Tie and Potlatch both remained in the Harrison Timber Company, along with the DeArmond Lumber Company, renamed since William Joyner had been bought out. Tom and John Richards and Bob and Dick DeArmond believed that Atlas Tie and DeArmond would benefit from a merger of the two companies. J.S. Richards and Jack Durdy were initially wary of the idea, but they were finally persuaded by the younger men. In October of 1968 Idaho Forest Industries was formed by a merger of Atlas Tie Company, Alpine Lumber Company, DeArmond Lumber Company, Fernwood Tie Mill Company, Inc., Richards-Goettel Lumber Company, Inc., DeArmond Brothers Lumber Company, Inc., Harrison Timber Company, Atlas Finance Company, Forest Lands, Inc., and Richards, Richards, Morford & Hughes, Inc. The last three companies were enterprises that had been recently founded by owners of the various lumber companies involved. The officers of the new company were as follows: J.S. Richards, Chairman of the Board of Directors; Bob DeArmond, Vice-Chairman of the Board of Directors and Executive Vice-President; Tom Richards, President; John Richards, Vice-President, Bob DeArmond, Secretary; and Jack Durdy, Treasurer. The board of directors consisted of the six owners of the various sawmills – J.S., Tom and John Richards, Bob and Dick DeArmond, and Jack Durdy.

Conclusion: After 30 years of operations, the Idaho Forest Industries headquarters remains at the site of the Atlas sawmill. Tom and John Richards now share controlling interest in the company, as the company recently purchased the shares of Bob & Dick DeArmond. The company embarked on a series of attempts at diversification. IFI purchased and operated sawmills in Medford, Oregon, St. Anthony, in southern Idaho and in British Columbia. All of these mills have since been closed down or sold.

The company purchased and later sold an interest in a manufactured housing plant in Portland. IFI has developed residential and commercial land in Coeur d’Alene, Boise and Sacramento, California.

In 1979 Atlas Building Center was moved to its present location on Highway 95, and a roof-truss manufacturing plant was constructed. The building center was sold to the Anderson Lumber Company of Salt Lake City in 1997. Over the years the company has continued to acquire timberlands in the Inland Empire.

Through all of these changes, the synergy between the Atlas and DeArmond sawmills has continued as the heart of the company’s operations. After de-emphasizing pine production for over five decades, Continued and Concluded on Page 26

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Final Part of Idaho Forest Industries Story Interviews: DeArmond, Dick, interview by Tom Richards, 1999.

Atlas began to market itself as a producer of top- February Durdy, Jack, interview by Tom Richards, quality pine and cedar boards. By the 1970’s most of February 1999. the pine mills in the area had closed down, and many Hakela, Paul, interview by Tom Richards, of the remaining mills were beginning to emphasize March 1999. fir production, making pine logs more available than Jovanovich, Janet, interview by Tom Richards, they had been for several decades. IFI continues to February 1999.

McCabe, Catherine Richards, interview by John send pine and cedar logs to the Atlas sawmill while smaller fir logs are sent to the DeArmond mill and the Richards McCabe, January 1985.

Richards, John, interview by Tom Richards, recently acquired Priest River stud mill. After years February 1999. of experimenting with diversification, the company Richards, W.T., interview by Tom Richards, has returned its focus almost exclusively to lumber February 1999. production in northern Idaho.

Roberts, Bob, interview by Tom Richards,

Marcus Wright entered a float in the Mar 1999.

Coeur d’Alene 4th of July parade in 1909, Shadduck, Louise, interview by Tom Richards, proclaiming himself the “Tie King.” The float April 1999. included a small Douglas Fir tree, and a banner proclaiming that Wright “will be in business when these are big enough for ties.” Wright’s initial focus on railroad ties and the continuance of this strategy

by John Morgan Richards and J.S. Richards brought the company safely through the troubled timber boom of the 1920’s and 1930’s. The various partnerships entered into by J.S. Richards, leading up to the merger that created Idaho Forest Industries ensured that Wright’s prophecy was fulfilled. Atlas Tie and Idaho Forest Industries continued in business while most of the lumbering concerns that helped build the town of Coeur d’Alene faded into history.

Atlas Lumber, Naples, Idaho 2015 Bibliography Primary Sources: Atlas Tie Corporation board minutes, 1915-1969, Idaho Forest Industries, Coeur d’Alene, Idaho.

“M.D. Wright, Good Citizen and Loyal Friend of Coeur d’Alene, Died Today,” Coeur d’Alene Press, 23 February, 1916, p.1.

“Fire Destroys Atlas Tie Mill,” Coeur d’Alene Press, 1 May, 1937, p. 1.

“Richards Dies,” Coeur d’Alene Press, 27 July 1946, p. 1.

“Woodworkers Ask Pay Raise,” Coeur d’Alene Press, 8 May 1947, p. 1.

“Union Starts “Last Ditch” Talks with Timbermen To Achieve Strike Demands,” Coeur d’Alene Press, 3 June 1947, p. 1.

“Lumber Plants and CIO Remain in a Deadlock!,” Coeur d’Alene Press, 13 June 1947, p.1.

“CIO’s Stoppage Hits 9 Lumber Firms in Area,” Coeur d’Alene Press, 19 June 1947, p. 1.

“5,000 Might Go Out on Strike,” Coeur d’Alene Press, 5 August 1947, p. 1.

“Walkout by 5,000 at Lumber Mills, Camps Set by CIO,” Coeur d’Alene Press, 6 August 1947, p. 1.

“Strike Lingers,” Coeur d’Alene Press, 8 August 1947, p. 1.

“Fire Levels Atlas Tie Mill and Planer,” Coeur d’Alene Press, 28 May, 1948, p. 1.

“CIO-IWA Will Not Pursue Wage Increases at This Time,” Coeur d’Alene Press, 1 September 1948, p.1.

“Mrs. Richards Dies Suddenly,” Coeur d’Alene Press, 12 January 1965, p. 1.

“Business Leader John S. Richards Dies,” Coeur d’Alene Press, 4 December 1971, p. 1.

Idaho Forest Industries Articles of Incorporation, Idaho Forest Industries, Coeur d’Alene, 1968.

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Snake Pit, CdA River 2015

Wetlands near Whiteman Lumber, Cataldo, ID 2015

Words of a Silver Valley Gem:

School Teacher, Jean Vosberg

Interviewed and written by Julie Lilienkamp “I’ve lived a wonderful life,” tells Jean Buchanan Vosberg, a Kellogg, Idaho-raised Scottish girl. “My Grandfather Buchanan was from Scotland, and my mother Ruth Murray and her family was from Scotland. And guess what? . . . I was born on St. Patrick’s Day, March 17, 1932.” Jean smiled and pointed to the Scotland flag and faded map of Scotland hanging on her living room wall.

Jean’s father, George Buchanan, worked as an electrician at Bunker Hill’s Zinc Plant, built a home in Kellogg, Idaho where he and Ruth raised Jean and her older brother John.

“We were raised at 132 Mission, the Italian part of Kellogg,” Jean tells and continues, “We lived by the Renaldis and the Rombels. The Swedes all liked living up the North Fork River.” Cont. on next pg.

Jean Vosberg, Kingston Home Fall, 2015

Vosberg Continued from prior page

Jean didn’t stand a chance but to become a school teacher, so she claims.

“I became a schoolteacher and married a full-blooded Dutchman, Arnold Vosberg, in 1953.

I was a seamstress too, just like my mother, but a teacher first and foremost. My grandmother was a teacher, my mother was a home economics teacher and my Aunt Ann, my mother’s sister, Ann Murray-Dickenson-Germo, was also a teacher.” Jean continues, “My grandmother, Mary Baslington, came alone to Post Falls, Idaho from Minnesota to teach in1887. She was paid up to $60 a month back then. Here’s a letter from her to home in 1890. This is all in cursive. Who will even be able to read cursive penmanship in the future?” Jean asks in a certain aggravated tone.

She read the letter, and it was certainly an historical piece, it talks about her encounter with an Indian woman showing up with her papoose at the schoolhouse door. The letter explains how she was terrified, mostly from rumors she had heard about the “savages”, and then the letter states she swallows her fear and invites the woman and baby into the schoolhouse. They soon became good friends . . .

The Murray family was apparently the very first family to settle in the town of the Spokane Valley area, their farm was situated on the now cross streets of Wellesley and Murray.

The Buchanans were the very first to settle into Moscow, Idaho, and her Grandfather Buchanan was the first sheriff of Latah County. Jean and her family have longtime history throughout the Northwest.

Jean and her husband moved from Kellogg to Kingston to raise their two children, Elizabeth and Steve, mostly due to politics. They ran a meat shop together and Arnold worked for Kellogg Transfer, a logging company disliked by the city of Kellogg. The city was tight with the EPA, even claiming they were responsible for replanting the trees in the city and surrounding area.

“We called the EPA the Enemy of People of America,” explains Jean. “The trees were never planted by the EPA; in fact the trees were starts that grew in the Bunker Hill Mine, donated by individuals and organizations, not the EPA. And once the tree shoots were about a foot high, and because it was hot underground, the trees were transferred to our Kingston meat shop coolers, Vosberg Meats. We kept the trees throughout the winter and the next spring, Ed Pomeranian planted every single one of them.”

The Vosbergs ran their meat shop for 20 years, they had a curetting room, coolers, tables, a commercial-size locker and deep freeze for keeping meats for customers who couldn’t pick up right away, and had clients all throughout the Northwest.

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“We even had clients and repeat clients all the way from New York.” Jean looks around her yard reflecting.

“We had a wonderful life,” Jean mentions again, “Our neighbors are the same. Bill Hildabrand is over there,” she points. “And Granny Hefner lived up the hill. I used to have coffee with her.

She grew alfalfa in those fields, and had the best gardens. It’s been a nice place to live; our home here at 77 Isabelle Lane. We have lived here 40+ years, and we planted all these trees. Now we have wildlife and birds visit daily, elk, deer, and squirrels. My husband has been gone now for some time so it’s just me and Bella [pet dog] feeding the birds. My son helps take care of me--he and his wife. Steve worked for Kellogg Transfer, like his father, and now works for Jack Buell Trucking out of St. Maries, Idaho.”

We finished our conversation in the driveway, next to the oversized bird house, one made for her by one of her students. After teaching she became a well-known seamstress, making all of her own clothes, and for others, over 100 ski jackets—some she gave away, some she sold. She said she likes to recycle everything, showing me zippers, material, swatches, thread, and now since she paints as a hobby, unimaginable colors and bottles of paint too. She mentions how she stays in touch will her community, she visits the local Snake Pit Grill in Kingston, telling stories of her family history to the local young and new residents. Jean continues to give back, and her story is one to embrace. If you are ever in the Kingston area, be sure to take time to tell her hello and THANK YOU.

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Many Idaho forest landowners desire a better understanding of how forests grow and how they can better manage their forest property to meet their goals. Furthermore, forest landowners are often required to demonstrate planned, active forest management to qualify for lower forestry property tax rates and cost-share assistance for management activities such as thinning.

This summer, a 6-session program, titled the Forestry Shortcourse, will help enrich forest landowners’ understanding of forest ecology, silviculture, forest health, wildlife habitat, and other forestry topics. In the process, participants are coached by natural resource professionals on how to develop a management plan for their forest.

The Forestry Shortcourse will be held Wednesday mornings, 9:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m., June 15, 22 & July 6, 13, 20, 27, 2016, at the University of Idaho Extension office in Bonner County (next to the Bonner County Fairgrounds).

The session can accomodate up to 25 people.

A $38.00 registration fee includes a large binder of forest stewardship resource materials, including a wooden USB flash drive with over 120 extension publications. Those wishing to participate should pre-register by Wednesday, June 8th at the University of Idaho Extension office in Bonner County (Phone: 208-263-8511).

The program is eligible for 7 Idaho Pesticide Recertification credits. For $262, teachers can also sign up for two University of Idaho credits for the program. For more seminars or if you have questions on the program, contact Chris Schnepf at (208) 446-1680. The Forestry Shortcourse is an Idaho Forest Stewardship program, cosponsored by University of Idaho Extension, the Idaho Department of Lands, and many other agencies and organizations.

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By Julie Lilienkamp

Writing stories and taking certain assignments doesn’t always mean I agree with the topic at hand. This one is a topic of interest to the small communities in the Northwest and throughout the country, but I have my opinion, which I will not share with you. I will, however give you enough information to allow you to form your stance.

Many of the Silver Valley and CdA area investors in mining and timberlands may know Dwight Suittr. He is the current North Idaho Mining District Administrator for MMAC, Mineral and Mines Advisory Council. And for you who are reading this may be wondering what trees and forests have to do with mining . . . you may want to read on.

Born in Miami, Florida, Dwight Suitter followed in his father’s footsteps. Both carpenters; Dwight became an Apprentice in Carpentry after World War II and worked as a Union Carpenter for 22 years. His father, a Scot, worked in carpentry for 22 years in the Army of Engineers with the 1916 Punitive Expedition.

The Suitters have been living in Smelterville, Idaho now for 24 years. Prior Bonner County, where Dwight worked seasonal carpentry and then moved to Post Falls, Idaho, Continued on page 33

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A third bill, written by Rep. Chris Stewart where they lived for 12 years before moving to (R-UT), would turn over what the Southern Utah Smelterville.

Wilderness Alliance estimates to be 6,000 miles of

Dwight Suitter is now involved with politics, road right-of-ways on U.S. public lands to counties namely the MMAC and the “Not Without in Utah, opening the door for road construction and a Fight” project. “Our immediate goal is to raise development in protected wilderness areas. money to lobby through to Congress the ideas and

These legislative efforts echo the demands of ideals of these organizations,” explains Suitter, militant rancher Cliven Bundy and his sons, Ryan and supported by his wife Mabel Rochester Suitter.

Ammon, that the federal government cede ownership

A February 2016 ruling from Congress will of all national forests and public lands to state, county, give more flexibility to states: and private interests . (http://thinkprogress.org/ “The bills represent an escalation of the political climate/2016/02/23/375234 2/bundy-copycat-billsbattle being waged by the Koch brothers’ political public-lands/).” network, anti-government extremist groups, and a

“In my opinions,” continues Suitter, “Congress small group of conservative politicians led by the made a mistake when dividing minerals and trees. committee’s chairman, U.S. Representative Rob The Forest Service regulates the trees and not Bishop (R-UT). minerals. Bureau of Land Management currently controls the mineral lands, and although they The first bill, introduced by Representative do a terrific job with the land and tree & forest Don Young from Alaska (R), would allow any state management, mineral lands are somewhat ignored. to seize control and ownership of up to 2 million acres of national forests within its borders — an area This is a good thing, it can lead to local, good paying nearly the size of Yellowstone National Park. A state jobs.”

To visit more on Mining Districts Legal would then be able to auction off the lands to private Authority, Miners’ Rights, How to Organize Mining ownership or for mining, logging, and drilling.

Districts, Reports, Maps, and more visit: http://www.

The second bill, written by Rep. Raul Labrador mineralsandminingadvisorycouncil.org/ (R-ID), would give states and counties the right To email you opinion on the topic: to take direct control of up to 4 million acres of info@mmacusa.org Other sources to explore regarding mines and national forests across the country for clear-cut minerals . . .http://naturalresources.house.gov/ logging, without regard to environmental laws and energyandmineralresources/ protections.

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Up-Dated March 10th 2016 Miners Making the Rules and Regulations supported in Washington D.C. The existing Federal Mining Law gives claim holders the authority to make rules and regulations in the context of organized Mining Districts. The miners within traditional mining districts have been neglecting their duties under Federal Mining law (30 U.S.C. section 22).

This is why the Minerals and Mining Advisory Council (MMAC) was formed as a project under Public Lands for the People (PLP) t o organize the traditionally and legally recognized Mining Districts within the United States and encouraging the miners holding mining claims to step to the plate, legally, and take charge of their future.

Presently MMAC has partnered with mining associations, unions, PLP and the National Association of Mining Districts. MMAC is a combined effort by numerous concerned miners, mine owners, geologists, mining engineers, retired politicians, retired militar y personnel, and mining attorneys that are gravely concerned about the future security of our nation and its increased dependence on foreign sources of mined materials. Currently the United States is importing up to 92% of raw materials, metals and rare-earth minerals from overseas.

Mining Districts can change all of this. (This was voiced by Capitol Hill committee members on our March trip to Washington DC) To date, the failure of Congressional action to rein in agencies at the Federal and State level from extremist green groups has nearly shut down the entire mining industry through onerous and prohibitive regulations and is also shutting out the general public at large. This is not consistent with the 1872 Mining Law, the mining district by-laws, the 1955 Multiple Surface Use Act, the 1969 National Environmental Policy Act, the 1970 National Minerals Policy Act and the 1976 Federal Land and Policy Management Act. MMAC was asked by the some Congressional House Natural Resources Committee members to put together a comprehensive solution to our industry’s plight. MMAC’s solution draft bill is named the “Minerals & Mining Regulatory Reform Act – A Clear Path Respecting Mining Rights” providing true accountability and regulatory certainty in existing law. This proposed bill provides:          

Regulatory certainty of a 30 day approval mitigation deadline Regulatory certainty of exemptions to the Clean Water Acts Regulatory certainty of exemptions to the Mine Safety and Health Administration Eliminates duplicative regulation by State and local governments Eliminates duplicative federal agency permits and the permit system Equal Access to Justice Act relief Cost effective due process appeal relief for unreasonable regulation Reasonable regulatory best management standards and mitigation formation procedures Clear environmental standing requirements to eliminate frivolous environmental lawsuits The TRADITIONAL MINING DISTRICTS as arbiters of reasonable regulation

MMAC’s objectives are advancing methodically and are being well received by regional Bureau of Land Management where MMAC has recognized their needed role in this process and this new path. The www.mmacusa.org website, PLP facebook and ICMJ have been documenting our progress.

PLP and MMAC went to Capital Hill in Washington D.C the first week of March 2016. We had more than 36 meetings with Senators, Congressmen, and their legislative staffers on the House Natural Resource, Energy and Natural Resource, Oversight and Armed Services committees. In sum they felt our proposed bill and mainly the idea of the MINING DISTRICTS are exactly what they are looking for from the Grass Roots of America. What they were especially excited about is the power the traditional and congressionally recognized mining districts have presently, and with some clarification through the MMAC bill, can push back agency overreach! Why were they so interested in the mining districts? They saw the mining districts as a viable option to the issue that public lands go back to the States immediately and thus would trigger massive valid existing right determinations, which never end well for the miner. The committees were not aware of this until MMAC and PLP opened their eyes, and a way to open the land and roads to recreation, hunting, ranching and other outdoor activities under the “free and open” language of the Mining Law. We have been called back to work closely on this historic piece of legislation with the legislative staffers on our bill and review other bills for them on the federal level. We are prepared to provide the Congressional education of the customary functions of the Mining Districts to the staffers. The Mining Districts along with clarification through the MMAC bill can break up the conflicts while employing a constitutional representative form of local governance benefiting other recreational public land users, along with grazing, hunting and ranching. This will require funding to pay for our travel and research. Now, here is where your help is needed. PLP is a 501(c)(3) and your donation for this grand endeavor will be tax deductible. Be part of the solution and make a healthy donation today in order that MMAC and PLP can continue to assist the local mining districts and educate Washington DC on the POWER OF THE MINING DISTRICTS! Please make your check payable to: PLP and add “for MMAC Bill” on the memo part of the check and send to: Public Lands for the People Inc, 20929 Ventura Blvd., Ste 47-466 Woodland Hills, CA 91364, or donate online to use auto pay on a monthly $10.00 contribution basis www.publiclandsforthepeople.org for the MMAC bill. See Washington DC progression as it happens on DC trips on PLP’s face book page https://www.facebook.com/publiclandsforthepeople .

REMEMBER $10.00 PER MONTH ON AUTO PAY IS ALL IT IS GOING TO TAKE ON YOUR PART TO TRY AND SAVE THE PUBLIC LANDS AND MINING FOR ALL OF US. The Dept. of Interior has plans presently to place all public lands under environmental land designations that will not be for public use!

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1st Meeting for the BEAVER CREEK MINING DISTRICT, will be JULY 1ST-2ND , 2016. Meeting will be to discuss signage for the Beaver Creek District. We must form a Quarum, or 10 people with claims for this to be considered legal and legitimate. Please call MMAC at 661.724.MINE (6463) or Dwight at (208) 784-3172, OR message us on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/MMACUSA. 37

Welcome to the Women’s Mining Coalition www.wmc-usa.org Your connection to people, information, and resources in the U. S. Mining Industry We provide members of Congress and other policy makers with facts about the modern mining industry, and the importance of mining to the U.S. economy and our daily lives.WMC members document the industry’s commitment to resource stewardship and environmentally responsible mining.

A strong mining industry is vitally important to America. WMC members deliver the message that jobs all across the country depend on mining, and that today’s regulations and modern technology ensure state-of-the-art environmental protection at U.S. mines. WMC members provide policy makers with firsthand information about the technological advancements and environmental stewardship of today’s mining industry.

Women’s Mining Coalition (WMC) members traveled to Washington D.C. for its 24th annual Fly-In for meetings on Capital Hill during the week of April 17, 2016. The women work in the hardrock, coal and industrial minerals industries and for companies that provide goods and services to mining companies.

During the Fly-In WMC members work hard to educate the members of Congress about the importance of a robust domestic mining industry.

WMC will be presented with the 2016 Prazen Living Legend Award.

Leadville, CO. April 25, 2016: The National Mining Hall of Fame and Museum’s Board of Directors is pleased to announce the 2016 Prazen Living Legend of Mining Award will be presented to theWomen’s Mining Coalition at the 29th Annual National Mining Hall of Fame induction banquet on September 24, 2016 in Las Vegas, NV. For more information in this and other events and membership email: info@wmc-usa.org, Women’s Mining Coalition, P.O. Box 10101, Reno, Nevada 89510-0101.

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oil, and gas is yet another effort to appease reckless and extreme environmentalists. By reestablishing the Royalty Policy Committee, our bill gives voice to communities that are impacted most by the secretary of the Interior’s decisions. It will also prevent the secretary from continuing to wreak economic havoc within Rocky Mountain states and Indian tribes.”

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U.S. Senator Mike Enzi (WY): “As I told the BLM at today’s public meeting in Casper, the resentative Ryan Zinke Introduce Bicameral people of Wyoming already know the value of coal Legislation that Protects Western States mined on federal land. This bill would reinstitute the ‎Royalty Policy Committee so that states and Mining & Energy Jobs tribes most impacted by federal coal leasing — the

Published on May 26, 2016 real experts on this program — have a meaningful say. The bill also ensures that the programmatic environmental impact statement of the program can’t drag on for years on end without a time limit or accountability.”

U.S. Representative Cynthia Lummis (WY-At large): “Any review of the federal coal program must involve meaningful consultation with states, tribes, and industry. I am proud to join with Representative Ryan Zinke and Senator Steve Daines of Montana and Wyoming Senators Mike Enzi and John Barrasso to introduce the Certainty The following press release came from Senator for for States and Tribes Act. This legislation would Montana, Steve Daines website. reconstitute the Royalty Policy Committee, require

U.S. CONGRESS — U.S. Senator Steve Daines the committee’s input on any proposed changes to and U.S. Representative Ryan Zinke today introduced royalty policy rates, and place a 3 year deadline on bicameral legislation to protect Montana coal jobs from the completion of the federal coal program review. the Obama administration’s recent moratorium on new The bill would also take steps to ensure coal leasing federal coal leases and ensure that states and tribes have can continue during the course of the review, a significant voice in any changes to federal coal, oil, gas instead of letting Secretary Jewell’s moratorium on royalties or leasing policy. coal lease sales to continue indefinitely.”

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Congressman and Coal Caucus President, and H.R. 5259, provides critical flexibility needed to David B. McKinley, P.E.: “I want to commend keep Montana mines open, protect thousands of goodboth Congressman Zinke and Senator Daines for paying jobs and provide needed support for government introducing the Certainty for States and Tribes and community services.

Act. This bill will go a long way in combating

“The Obama administration has completely this Administration’s anti-fossil fuel agenda and ignored the will and well-being of Montanans and ensuring future access to our most affordable and coal-producing states and tribes,” Daines stated. “My reliable energy sources.” bill gives certainty to states and tribes and is critical to Daines’ and Zinke’s legislation is supported by protecting thousands of good-paying union and tribal Montanans and key stakeholders: jobs.”

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“The Obama Administration has unilaterally “The Certainty for States and Tribes Act is a great stripped Montana’s and the Crow’s voices from the piece of legislation because it puts the power back conversation about how we can mine and use our own into the hands of the experts. It allows states, coal resources,” Zinke stated. “It’s a shame I even had Indian tribes, and other stakeholders to have a to introduce this bill and that Congress has to codify the say in the policies that impact them directly. As a ability for the American people to weigh in on our own Montanan it makes me proud to know that Senator livelihoods.”

Daines and Representative Zinke are working for

The Certainty for States and Tribes Act is coa better relationship with the Department of the sponsored by U.S. Senators John Barrasso (R-WY) and Interior. I hope that this will save coal towns like Mike Enzi (R-WY) and U.S. Representatives Cynthia mine, and give us the opportunity to prosper and Lummis (WY-AL), David McKinley (WV-01), Scott keep Montana an energy exporter for many years Tipton (CO-03), Paul Gosar (AZ-04), Kevin Cramer to come. By putting the people who are directly (ND-AL), Bruce Westerman (AR-04) and Bill Johnson impacted in the position of advising our federal (OH-06). leaders you are putting a real-world experience on

U.S. Senator John Barrasso (WY): “The Obama the policies.” administration’s plan to raise royalty rates on federal See more at http://mineidaho.com/ coal,

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Remembering Private First Class John McConnell (1924-2016) John McConnell was born May 23, 1924, passed May 2016. McConnell married in 1950, had and raised five children, three sons and two daughters, remarrying after his first wife died from Diabetes. McConnell recently gave his time and love to the community-“fiddlin’” at Kootenai Health Center throughout the week, along with other locations. He and second wife, Pearl volunteer for non-profit organizations all week long, all year long. McConnell was a member of the United Methodist Church in CdA, Masonic Orders in CdA, Kootenai Lodge #24, Scottish Rite 32nd, Calam Shrine Temple, National Eagle Scout Association (Life Member), 304th Infantry Regiment Association, 76th Infantry Division Association, American Legion (Life Member), and American Society of Mechanical Engineers. John McConnell will be missed, as he was an example of how to make our community a better place to raise families, start businesses, and remember our liberty. Thank you John, Salute!

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