[Vision2020] Re: A Great Meeting

[Nils Peterson]

Phil, you made a related post on Nov 18, to which I replied. Both are
captured here:  http://moscowwiki.editme.com/Hwy95Hwy8Intersection  in the
form of a proposal for where Moscow might house some of those ceramic
artists.

My follow on comment this time would be that we need to be judicious in how
excited we get about clay mining, both from water resource impacts and from
extractive industry perspective. A model like Wendt's that extracts clay for
its own value added production seems more appropriate, but even there one
might find there were limits on what would seem appropriate.


On 1/13/06 4:44 AM, "vision2020-request at moscow.com"
<vision2020-request at moscow.com> wrote:

> One of the points that Mike Wendt made at the meeting is something that
> ought to be discussed.  He noted that his on site sales of pottery from his
> out of the way shop in Lewiston, not exactly the best place for tourist
> trade, had a cash register that in a little less than 20 years of operations
> had rung up over 3 million dollars in sales.  That is not from mass produced
> ceramics, but from true hand crafted pottery.
> 
> Mike's materials come from right here in Latah County.  We have the raw
> stuff from which to form a high value added art related industry in Moscow's
> backyard.  And its not common clay or low value feldspar and quartz, its
> some of the best porcelain producing material in the world.