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

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INTERVIEW: Louis Amador Page 4 LA: pretty good head. He wasa geologist engineer. He's pretty smart and that girl she look at me from way down. And he grab you by the hand and grab it now 4nd says come in, come in, come in office by himself. Sit down, we sat down. Want a cigar. We started smoking cigars, you know, he like it. Ah, he says, well that's how it is in here. The reason I called you, he says, I got a pretty good deal for you fellows if you want to take it. What is it? Says, well, he says, I'm losing my name in here. He says, -I got a bunch of boys they claim to be miners so they, so they don't have to go to the army and I haven't produced an ounce ore to the government. See, it was under, you know, a government job, well the Bureau of Mines is government. Triple A, well you I have all the jobs I want in those times because my job is called for it's a must you see and he says I want you fellows to come out and find some ore for me over there, he s~ys. I'll tell you he says, you get a good deal about that. Okay, I say so we went out and look at the place. Oh, man wet, 52 degrees of heat that's how high it goes summer and winter. 52 degrees, man you start shivering if you don't, you know, cover yourself. And that water you touch it comes out of the mountain, ice you touch that and it look like somebody give you a shock with an electric wire