Spanish speaking peoples in Utah, oral histories: book 1, numbers 1 through 10

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INTERVIEW: Louis Amador Page 3 LA: days. But the main place where the cotton mill was, where the factory was at Zaragosa~----that's the little town, the company never wanted to make a town but they call it more like a big farm but in reality was a town because it have FO: LA: a park and they have a church and they have quite a few recreations that the company set, they have beautiful golf course, course, I didn't play that naturally but those boys who own the set used to play around there, lots of recreation anyhow, in the evenings they used it whenever they please, they own the company so they can ~o what they want. Tell me, did your family own their own ·home there? No, .. 10, we not own anything and t~~e company supply everything, supply our house, and naturally our food and boarding stuff, like the cooking stuff like that, we had to get it ourselves, the company have a big area of wood what they so called mesquite tree, bring some kind of fruit like a __________ of a bean was a mesquite they call it. That was a hard wood that was the best for you in other wo~ds supplied like the fuel, see, you build a fire and cook with it. So, we didn't own anything there except what we have with ourselves. But you can live in there a lifetime and the house that you have---that was your house to your right, nobody even come out and say, hey, you got to do this or that, if you don't want to fix