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

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INTERVIEW: Francis Yanez Page 2 FY: Yes. VM: Nineteen-nineteen--eighteen? FY: Well, when we first moved here, Ma, just had us three. My two older brothers and myself. Then from there on, then the rest of them are Utahans. VM: I see. Did you go to school here in Utah? Obviously you did. FY: (Laugh) That's funny. You know, everytime anybody asks me that question, they think I did go to school, but I didn't. It's fact. I wish I had of. I wish I'd a had that opportunity, but it was kind of a sad story. I was raised during the depression. And we came from a large family and unfortunately, unfortunately everybody, you know, was poor in those days. Like they say, there was no jobs. Everything was tight, the money especially, you know. It was tight, so what we had to do was from here---we went from Salt Lake City, we used to go to Idaho to work. And the only ones that really had any schooling was my older brothers, and my younger ones. VM: What---what type of things did you do with the work, fruit, vegetables? FY: No, we used to well, in general, everything really. The boys when they were fourteen and fifteen they had to get out and farm and start cleaning ditches. Like starting in March--­February and March, so you can see that made them that much