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

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INTERVIEW: Louis Amador Page 34 LA: And I wait a little too long for my experience. But when I met up with her I met up with her and we got married and we haven't had a bit of trouble ever .since. FO: How many children do you have? LA: I only have three, no four. See the girl then two boys and fifteen years later the baby. Fifteen years later just figure. My boy was gonna go through high school, the youngest I thought then, when he finishes school that year when that baby come. I got an eight year old baby right now. FO: I se-:. LA: And I got one married, two singles they don't want to get married, I don't blame them. The way conditions are right now, I d.on' t know what's going to happen. VM: Let's get back to, after you finished at Garfield where did you begin working after that? LA: Well, when I finish working at that time, Mr. Hoover put us all in good conditions, none of us had to work you know whether we starve to death when there is nothing to do. But anyhow I finally come up, he say, you know, Montanas giving you a pretty good price in beets, I never, never even know what a beet look like. My oldest brother says, let's go, he says eleven dollars an acre that's good. Mister when you walk an acre, you don't have to work to be tired. Using that hoe