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CHAMBERLAIN: My name is Joe Chamberlain. I reside in Wilsonville, Oregon. It’s just
<br />south of Portland a little ways. I’m retired on a 20-acre---
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<br />MOSES: Please speak in your mic—
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<br />CHAMBERLAIN: I retired on 20 acres with my wife at some ten or twelve years ago. We,
<br />were, had gotten a piece of property in Hawai‛i. First of all, I’m 90 years old. I don’t hear very
<br />good. I get confused a few times, but other than that, I, I can still percolate.
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<br />My wife and I received this lot down on Ocean View Avenue, and we made plans to move over
<br />here from October to April ‘cause we like the weather here a little better. At the time, we were
<br />both in pretty good health. Well, during that time, planning to do all this stuff, I, my wife got
<br />emphysema and it got so bad, I, for 12 years, I kept her at home, and then she had to go into a
<br />care center, and six years ago, she passed away. Well, I had the lot yet here, but I had some
<br />other properties I had looked at. Then, I started, I was asked to get involved in this deal with this
<br />person to mine cinders. Well, I investigated in this person, and I never, I finally looking at this
<br />thing. I finally decided I’d probably give this a try, that it had some future, and I was retiring
<br />from my business of 55 years in Portland as a mechanical contractor. I put in heating and air
<br />conditioning work. That business is still in business today run by my son who is 59.
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<br />I have six children, 3 boys and 3 girls. They’re all reasonably good kids and are making their
<br />way in this world. I, I have tried hard to run this business here. When I appeared before this
<br />board, I don’t know, it’s been five years ago, and I was given favorable treatment, and at the
<br />time, they sold, told me that I was the only one that had a license to do this here. There was a lot
<br />of people doing it, but they didn’t have licenses. That was neither here nor there. We have tried
<br />to follow the rules of this thing very closely. We did make a mistake on one of the quarries—
<br />some time back we didn’t get a, an engineer to come and look at a, they were supposed to give us
<br />a profile of where we had mined.
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<br />The first year when we started this, we didn’t mine at all on our own. The second year, we
<br />moved another man in there to crush rock. The third year, he came in there and crushed rock, so
<br />we did not progress this thing as fast as we would like to. I know at one time, we started selling
<br />crushed rock in that area. Within a mere, within five or six months, we had 90 percent, 90
<br />percent of all rock sales in that area. People have written us letters right now, we have over a
<br />hundred that specify that they’d like to see us back in business.
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<br />I have run businesses most of my entire life, and I have always had a good record with any place
<br />where I worked, and I do try to follow the rules, seeing that we got called down on here. We did
<br />not get a profile of that one area which we had not mined much. There was very little change or
<br />anything to report.
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<br />Right now, if we, we would like your consideration to let us go back in business. I have had to
<br />lay off four people some months ago, and these were people that were making good salaries.
<br />The foreman there I think was about $60,000 a year. This, I feel, is a fair amount for a new
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