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

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INTERVIffi-1: Louis Amador Page 9 LA: I don't so ••• yeah that was the truth some of these fellows just because they think they're big, they're not any bigger than you are. We all equal. Course some of us have better intelligence. If I'd saved my mbney when I was making it I wouldn't be working around or waiting for social security. But I didn't save it see. I make fifty dollars a day whether I go to work or not every day for three hundred and sixty­five days of the year. Fifty dollars every day and from there I make fifteen, twenty a day while the miners was making four and a half, five dollars. I making triple, course sometimes I probably work a littl~ harder than they did, but I didn't mind it then, but no matter where we go we always find ore. And fellows says, oh these guys must believe in devil this and that it isn't that it's just the way you go about it. If you got a feeling that well this place might hit us, let's hit it and see what it does, you find it's all right. And this Jim used to come to us says, hi, you lucky boys we say, what do you mean lucky, you mean working boys. No, he says, lucky y~u find ore where nobody find it. I said that isn't the way but that's the way we used to go about it and so when I, when we took all that mining and stuff my brother-in-law died in Ogden. I say, I don't want to live like that, so I quit. I come out and