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To: Crocodile who wrote (857)	12/2/2002 11:32:21 AM
From: E. Charters	Respond to of 1293

Yes. Paddles are hardwood and this is a softwood forum. So what you do is skin your logs and fill a custom form saying the load is 24,000 hardwood paddles. First stage of the manufacturing process and not yet turned down. Softwood tariff does not apply. I see where Wairarewedoogiehowser now wants the tariff duty taken off as it has made many CDN producers more competitive as the higher cost fellows are out of business and the others are lean and mean. Domtar and Whorehowser have laid off about 250 people at Soos Aint Maree and Virgin Stalls. Seems that Whorehowser stopped a profit making cardboard recycling plant and would not let it be bought by the townsfolk. They even admitted it was making a profit. Wouldn't be part of some plot somewhow would it? I guess they is waving the flag and maxing profits in the lower 48. That is not against the law but it is a lesson to the hewers of wood and drawers of water that they do not invest in their own country. I think Merikuns own 80% of our pulp and paper and quite a bit of our saw log operations. Now they are looking to own a fair bit of the land as well. The Georgia Pacific takeover of the Soo townships in 1995 from Algoma took the largest and oldest tax free land grant in the Birtish Commonwealth from Canadian interests, who did not even log it but used to farm it out to CDN companies! I think the Algoma lands were some 38 or more 6 mile square townships. All tax free. I used to own some deals on that land. I used to have a mining property with 168 drill holes in it on a gold zone 1.5 miles long with gold found in it all the way and a zone 1000 by 1000 feet proved with two shafts and two levels, of 0.50 ounces per ton of perhaps 100 to 150 thousand tons. I also had 20 targets with mag bullseyes on them that later proved to be in the discovery area of Band Ore where there was found 7260 diamonds in rock in place . Few people I talked to wanted to put any meaningful money into it. It did not help that certain parties in Timmins went around saying I did not own the land there. I thought the 60 page agreement I had with Algoma meant that I had the mining rights but maybe I was wrong. Legal agreement can be complicated and perhaps people who had not seen it knew more. I held the land for 5 years but ran out of money to do anything with it. I had located about 60 diatremes on the land in that time. Fellow who first started diatremes in that area was Roger Mitchell, who with Cominco in the Arctic Islands was the first geo to find diamonds in place in Canada. (1972) I used to take geology off him at Lakehead in 1980. Money to drill was the problem. Brokers who had never nocked a rock knew better than I. It just would not work. Funny isn't it that the softwood timber tax penalizes Merikun owned companies north of the border. I wonder what they think of that? Or is it part of the plan. About the Cominco find of diamonds way back when near Ellesmere Island. They also had land in the State line district of the Wyoming Colorado border. Kimberlites there had copious diamonds. In 1880 some guys from San Franciso were "caught" in a diamond scam where the claimed to have found diamonds on scattered on top of a mesa in that area, It was later "proved" that they had salted the claim with diamonds from South Africa. Now a type of rock that forms mesas in that area is called Lamproite which is the host rock of the Argyle Diamond mine in Australia, which is the richest diamond mine by caratage ever found in the world. (600 carats per hundred tonnes) (In fact 60% of all the Buttes and Mesas you see in the cowboy movies are in fact one or another type of lamproite. they are old felsic volcano "throats" sticking out of a surrounding eroded plain.) I wonder. Scam, or maybe ... EC<:-}