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

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INTERVIEW: Francis Yanez Page 6 FY: there was no school. It was all work---work---work. VM: After the season finished, then you would come back to Salt Lake City? FY: Then we'd head back, and I'll remember that. It was, oh, so bitter cold---when we were working out in the fields also because in, I don't know, in those years it tend to see that the climate was colder, and it would snow more, you know. Now, here in Salt Lake City during the winter now, you can't see too much snow, you know, you see a little snow, but not when we used to see three or five, six feet of snow. That's the way it was up in Idaho, and we'd start our--our trek back, oh, about November. You know, as soon as the snow hit the ground and we couldn't top beets any more, then we'd head back to Salt Lake City. VM: What would you do when you got back to Salt Lake City? What type of work was there? FY: Well, ---no work. No type of work that you can imagine of. In the meantime while we were working at the farm, our parents would save money, and this was their way of doing their work, you know. They'd save money, like he'd save money for education, and they'd save it so we wouldn't starve to death---when we got back to the city, you know, or to there---where were--we were going to live. And we'd scrounge around,---oh, Dad would