And now:Ish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1999 09:30:24 -0500 >From: *Noquisi* or Evergreen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: [FN] Yakama Celebrate Sawmill >Comments: To: "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >White Swan, Washington (AP) > > The Yakama Nation has opened its first sawmill. The >$12 million Yakama Forest Products sawmill, dedicated >Dec. 11, is the latest attempt by the tribe to improve >its economic outlook. > The Yakama have made money off timber sales for half >a century. Instead of selling its logs to other mills, >the tribe will not( think this should read 'now') be able to convert small logs into >boards and keep more timber money at home. > "In the past, I witnessed the trucks going forth >loaded with logs, and the thing that was sad to me was >that they weren't coming here, they were going to >Yakima," said >Clifford Moses, a Yakama council member. > "It has always been my dream that the Yakama Nation >should make its own finished materials, and that dream >has come true," he said. > "Proposals to start a sawmill failed in the Yakama >Nation General Council several times before finally >winning approval in 1994. > Although individual Yakamas have run small mills in >the past, this is the first tribally owned mill and the >first to open on the reservation since the White Swan >Lumber Mill closed nearly 10 years ago. Ninety people >lost thier jobs as a result of that closure. > Tim Vigil was one of the loggers left hanging when >the mill closed. Now he is one >of 65 people, most of them Yakama, who works for Yakama >Forest Products. > The mill is expected to have an annual payroll of $2 >million. It is running just one shift a day, but could >expand to two shifts, adding another 35 workers. The >jobs pay between $9 and $15 an hour. > >-NEWS FROM INDIAN COUNTRY Late Dec 1998 > >-- >Back To The Blanket Journal: >http://www.angelfire.com/biz/BackToTheBlanket > >Heroine Mu Gui-Ying >http://www.geocities.com/Tokyo/Pagoda/7111 > >________________________________________________________________________ >Wish to Leave? See <http://www.dickshovel.com/mailinglist.html>. > <<<<=-=-=FREE LEONARD PELTIER=-=-=>>>> If you think you are too small to make a difference; try sleeping in a closed room with a mosquito.... African Proverb <<<<=-=http://www.tdi.net/ishgooda/ =-=>>>> IF it says: "PASS THIS TO EVERYONE YOU KNOW...." Please Check it before you send it at: http://urbanlegends.miningco.com/library/blhoax.htm
