Political Quotes

“I will be happy to respond. We have done something about that. We have solved that problem so people cannot go out and file miles and miles of claims anymore. In fact, prior to our changing the law with the holding fee, we had in Nevada over a million mining claims. That now, at last report, is down to about 300,000--something like that. So it is not as if we have not done anything here. The Senator has not responded--and I am sure he will when I leave-- but the reversionary interest we had in the legislation last year, I think it is important that we recognize the patent issue. I hope, again, in the reform we have that if a patent is issued, there will be a reversionary issue. If the Senator has a problem, as he indicated he has, that having a fair market value is improper for a land, that there should be some way of determining what the subsurface rights are, that is really hard to do. I am not sure we can do it. I would be happy to meet with the Senator.”