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

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INIERVIEW: Louis Amador LA: work for Gibbons and Reed Utah Construction and this other place they build a great big building in Bacchas Morrison. FO: Knudsen. • .Morrison Knudsen. LA: Morrison Knudsen, I work for those fellows too a year it's all hard work but as a rule they had no, like for instance Page 10 on that place I blast every foot of that waterline for them. You know, you have to be a man to know what to use with you know, with like dynamite that's like powder sticks stuff like that fuses and all that, and like that but quite a bit of electric too. I use quite a bit for Utah Construction. One day I went working with, well I was digging and then the superintendent see that was kind of rough, he say that Mexican he don't know nothing, let's go get a powder man from the union so what they done, they bought powder fellow. If it wouldn't have been for me, he probably would have blast himself out the first day he went in there. But, this boss he knew me for years that I work in the mine. He was just a young kid then, hey Louis, he says, you want to help this boy, he says, gonna be the powder man. I says, all right. He says, well, he says,- you know how it is I like to keep you better than that fellow and give you the money for it but the company don't go for it, they want everything, you know, so they can show they have everything like what