>> first of all let me respond to betsy dobb's comment about the boundary waters and the copper miningpolymet is located directly south of the divide. the water that goes out from the polymet the water quality, if there is a water quality issue, is going to not effect the boundary waters. it's going to go into lake superior. the upper mine that she's talking about is five or six years away, and they haven't even completed the economic feasibility studies, and too often some of the environmentalists will conflate it and pretty soon we're talk about the boundary waters being effected by the polltymet mine. no such thing. water doesn't run uphill. let me tell you why the northeastern minnesota and especially the elli area and the counties surrounding us. here in elle the median family income is $31,500. father south in aurora the median is $42,000. in 2010 the median income in the state of minnesota was 55,000, today it's something more like 59,000. but the elle area and the elle economy is not doing as well as it should. the first mining -- that sector contributes about 30% to the elle a