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

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INTERVIEW: Louis Amador LA: I want to take the powder man with me, well go ahead, he says, I don't think we need him right now. So I went over there, he bring me back, have more going back and forth, more rides than anything else. Get in the smelter, you got to have hard hat. I says, what's this I put one on, no, Page 14 he said, one like the company have. Man, what's the difference, I'm not going to stay here all my life. Well that's company orders. I say, well, finally one of the boys ah, just put it on. Way out where there is nothing I almost tell that guy, but I didn't tell him nothing, I almost tell him, 'Listen Mister, I was here before )CU was born, don'~ tell me anything about this.' Heck we don't even have the hard hats in that main building that is the highest building in the smelter, we never use those hard hats. Never I never see anybody get hurt on account of something drop on his head. And this fellow and you know on those converters many times there's explosions and they throw fire all over. But we never got hurt and the skinners, you know, they used to have skinners for the converters, that's to take all the ore, see and leave all the pure stuff for the copper machine. See that's another one I forgot to tell you, I work on that copper machine too where they build the bars, copper bars each one of those copper bars used to weigh 450 pounds apiece