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

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INTERVIEW: Louis Amador LA: he was pretty good egg. So he give us all the breaks we need cause we didn't have nothing to go, that's why we quit a mine because the, the lists started, the companys took over the list and then after they· took over the lists they take a certain man to go to work for them and stuff like that. So I say, well he says this is for the birds. I told my brother-in-law, let's not even go over there, and then this fellow call us, Jim Marsh, so he says what can Page 8 we do. We not doing nothing, I say, okay let's go. And that's how I happen to went out to Alta and worked. We worked after that we work abo~t two, three years for different outfits but what struck me funny, he's pretty smart this boy. We no matter where we go he always follow us see, because he work for Utah Copper but he had something to do with get under the mines and make some places like Bingham metals, Armstrong and some of those mines see, he was the head man, he had two, three helpers with him and I didn't care who he was with or 'what, I would say hi, easy money. You know, stuff like that like in, well, like rough old timers like, old miners. Superintendent would come, some of those guys say, here comes the superintendent. To heck with the superintendent, I don't care, he's just another man, he's got his business, I've got mine. He's making good money,