On the way to all this a tiny but vicious and noisy contingent of Sterling shareholders (they totaled about 3 percent when it came to nut-cutting time three months later) started slandering DeMotte for his plodding, bull-headed progress at Sterling. They wanted instant glory-holing, not new transformers and pumps and batteries and wiring and motors which are the backbone of a hard-rock silver mine. And they were ticked off that they hadn't sold their Sterling stock during its brief and uncalled-for run-up to $13 and thought they could steal the mine away from Sterling for a few thousand bucks. The attack got nasty and personal, even reaching down to this lowly writer, when a failed Wallace banker who didn't know the difference between Yen and Canadian dollars used his juice to get us kicked out of the Wallace Elks Lodge. And it had to be nothing short of agonizingly hurtful for DeMotte. But he soldiered on . . .
Quote:A few naysayers didn't get that it was possible. But there you have it: the Sunshine Mine is back in business. Ray DeMotte, take a bow.