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DG: So you, at this time then, your folks were in Seattle and Min tells me that you were commuting back and forth and taking legal action and physical action to get your...

RM: Property.

DG: Property back. And then once you took it over, what did you have?

RM: What was the question?

DG: You got the business back, the Eagle Oyster Company, but you told me some about what kind of shape it was in.

RM: Yeah. Well, the oyster beds more or less depleted of oysters, and plant -- they took part of our electrical wiring and put in it in their own plant area building and really...

DG: Kind of raped it.

RM: Raped it, yeah. Right.

DG: Okay. Now, Min tells me that he was here about two or three months helping you rebuild. What did you have to rebuild?

RM: Well, we had to, well, to work on the plant there, to rebuild. I guess you could call it rebuild.

DG: Physically.

RM: The plant.

DG: Like the wiring.

RM: Yeah, and get, there was a lot of work.

DG: And then how did you replant the oyster beds and what not?

RM: Well, fortunately we had wild oysters on our -- we had quite a bit of acres of wild oysters that grew wild there. And so we took those and planted in our beds. Yeah.

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