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

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INTERVIEW: Louis Amador LA: and used to carry them in trucks by hand, get a hook, get two at a time, get a hook and pull them right out, take off, and put· them in the railroad car. Some of them so hot that even the cars smell like it's burning. Oh, that's quite a bit of, quite a bit of, quite a few places that I been around and nobodys going to tell me, well, I been there and you don't. Because I actually went to the place, I don't want to say anything that I haven't been on and like I say on this construction you learn a lot of things. You learn a lot of things if the bosses give you a chance to learn, but if they don't, why you stay a laborer all your life. But if they give you a chance and you have a little bit you don't have to have much intelligence, you learn. I learn quite a few things with Utah Construction because they give Page 15 me a chance. I learn how to pull one of those V8-4 Caterpillers, those fork lifters, lift 12, 16 tons lifters, I learn how to operate compressors, I learn quite a few things, like I say, I learn how to trade with the wagon trains was up to date at that time, see and then here comes bigger machines well naturally they had to take somebody as apprentice and I didn't want to be apprentice, I was making pretty good money as a machine man, so I didn't take that but that's what they use up today, those big giant drillers about 14