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

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INTERVIEW: Louis Amador Page 28 LA: all was on the fifth of May or the sixteenth of September we all get together, I quit all that, I'm too old for that. VM: How about, can you estimate about how many, how many families or how many total Mexicans were ~ay in Salt Lake around that time. Do you have any idea? LA: I haven't got the slightest idea but around the city there was quite a few single men lives on hotels and rooms boarding rooms, you know, rooms, you find quite a few on Second South, at that time but families to speak of like I say was not very ~any some of Cabrem is one, did you talk to Cabrera? VM: Not yet, no. LA: Cabrera, is the one that used to wcrk, stay together with your dad at the station, that was one and then Perezes was next and then ah, oh, a lot of them left by now. But this, I'd say ten, fifteen families at the most at that time 1926. FO: Do you remember when the first of the Spanish speaking priest came here? LA: Yes,.that was 1927. They was expelled from Mexico on account of the revolutions. The clerical declare war with the government and that was the mistake they made. See, they tried to do it better than that they probably be better offo But I know two priests that come from there and-----This ah, what they call, they run from the country because if no one know where