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

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INTERVIEW: Louis Amador LA: leave that ball in there and clean my hands forgot the darn thing and here come the engineer for the company, Johnny Costello, was the engineer and superintendent for the mine for the Bureau Mines, he took it~ by golly he took and have it bored for analysis, to see what it carries, you know, what that thing carry? 365 ounces in silver, boy was he excited the next day. I say, well where in the hell do you expect me to find it? But wait, show me, he says, I says, oh -come on, it can't be that bad. So we went in there and right there we cut a cross out th~t's where we find that ore . It took us three months. Like I say, we had to work. We put everything, made sure everything, ladders was soft and everything before we go down. But when we found that then we started, then brother-in-law and I told him let's cut a soft drift through here. See a ~oft drift is a quarter of the size. Let's drill a soft drift and see what it is. By golly we hit it right in that pocket. Only eighty-five tons but boy they was worth it. And we found it and boy you ought hear that paper talking about that mine. Mr. Marsh and this and that met him on right and said, that's what you need, didn't you, that's where you want. You want to get a name out of that. You know darn well, you know, where he was. And boy he just laugh and Page 7