Spanish speaking peoples in Utah, oral histories: book 9, numbers 91 through 101

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I TERVIID~: L pez Page 6 a: ten acres of it. And this way they would have a home and a place to raise whatever the needed to eat on, instead of depending on the welfare or depending on the grocery store for everything, I said. Once we do that, I said, I think the prices will go down. So right now we have put in for a grant of two-hundred thousand d llars and I don't know, like I say, whether they will give it to us or not, because there was quite a few other grants. And maybe some others are better needed that what we expe~ted to .. on ours but so far, it looks pretty good. Because they sent ~ guy over, just, oh about two or three weeks ago, talking to us about this truck farm co-op that we wanted to start, you know, and what was the purpose of it, and everything, you know. And, of course, we wrote a pretty good proposal, and this gal used to be my secretary before, we worked together, and wrote up a pretty nice one, and the by-laws and everything set up in it, and they seemed to accept it pretty good, of course, I don't know if we'll get the money or not. GC: ow who did you submit this proposal to? ML: To the Campaign of Human Development. GC: And that's out of, where? ML: Washington, D. C. And this was the first time they had anybody had ever put in from Idaho, so ... for anything. Idaho had never put in. Then I ~ent to pushing it, you know. I guess if I had been selfish, I would have kept it quiet, because I had all the