The Great Sand Fracas of Ames County
“As a consulting mining engineer with offices in Portland, Oregon, he traveled the world, helping mining companies set up new operations. The Alstage Sand Mining Company had hired him to help them set up their mining operation in Link Lake, Wisconsin. The company had set late October for the mine’s official opening.
Karl, a lifelong bachelor, was tall, thin, and had a full head of black hair, deep penetrating eyes, and a personality that quickly won over people. He was especially good at coming ...into a community where a mine was planned to soothe over any negative feelings about mining, and, of course, to emphasize all the positive features—especially the job creation and economic benefits that result when a mine opens. In the twenty-five years that he had been a mining engineer, a community’s acceptance of a mine had become ever more contentious. Some people didn’t want a mine in their neighborhood, plain and simple. It didn’t matter that the country needed coal, or steel, or whatever else was dug from the ground; these people saw mining as a way, to use their words, “to rape the environment.”MoreLess
Karl, a lifelong bachelor, was tall, thin, and had a full head of black hair, deep penetrating eyes, and a personality that quickly won over people. He was especially good at coming ...into a community where a mine was planned to soothe over any negative feelings about mining, and, of course, to emphasize all the positive features—especially the job creation and economic benefits that result when a mine opens. In the twenty-five years that he had been a mining engineer, a community’s acceptance of a mine had become ever more contentious. Some people didn’t want a mine in their neighborhood, plain and simple. It didn’t matter that the country needed coal, or steel, or whatever else was dug from the ground; these people saw mining as a way, to use their words, “to rape the environment.”MoreLess
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