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

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INTERVIEW: Louis Amador VM: Who had that kind of an idea, the company? LA: The sheri££. VM: Oh, the she riff. Pa ge 29 LA: The sheriff in Bingham, well, he broke the law see. VM: Yeah, yeah, well killing somebody is breaking the law. LA: He got a hold of one and they sent him to apprehend and he meet him, I know the place, where he meet him, in Highland--- Boy Mine and ______________ that this deputy who is gone out, he say, look, I know him by name and everything he says, I don't wanna kill you. I say, you got a wife, you got four kids, whose gonna take care of them. He says, why don't you just leave your ~un there he says and go back. He's not ashamed to tell that I beat you to the draw because the minute you move that gun I have to kill you and boy he means it. So he left his gun and started walking down, way down to Bingham, and here comes about 25 of them after him. Shucks by that time he was gone, he knows the country pretty well. He could have taken that tramway that goes from Bingham to Tooele to deliver ore, they used to have a tramway there. Did you ever see that area? I don't think it's anything existing but I still remember when they used to have buckets, little buckets on a cable like in Alta for thos e skie rs, the same system but the cable was that big around and the