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

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INTERVIEW: Louis Amador Page 10 LA: used to be a great big lake when that lake vanished, dried, then all that very virgin ground, good soil so cotton I'm not kidding you, the cotton higher than that, that's the plants and went to, I believe what they say, they supply half of the world they sold cotton during this first world war to pretty much anybody, and that company was pretty sturdy, they have their own locomotives, their own cars interhooked on the national rails which is well that's a big company or government or who owns those now but it was a good, it was a big company there was very understanding people there, we never, well, one time we have a depression during 1917, 1918, something like that and a lot of people all over the worlc was starving and we never have a bit of starvation because the company have their warehouses, with seed, liKe for instance corn, beans, and she bring sugar and coffee from Piedras Negras because she have a very big warehouse in here and all the people that stay with that company we never suffer, they give us like a little tie like a little card and show us how many people you have and they give you that much for the day and that's everyday you go pick what you need, your rations, and we never suffer. VM: What town did you come to when you first came to the United States?