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

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INTERVIEW: Francis Yanez Page 39 FY: it's caught on not only with the Mexican, but I think with everybody else. To me it seems like, you know, I don't know, I might be wrong 'cause I've never had, you know, read on the statistics, but it seems like everybody's having the same problem. VM: After immigrations from New Mexico and Colorado and or Colorado, Mexicans in the thirties and forties, were there any other periods when Mexicans and Spanish speaking people moved into the state? FY: Yes, I can remember there was a period from about nineteen-fifty--- starting about around in the fifties I'll say. There was whole lot of Puerto Ricans and---from the Chicago, from New York---they came in from Puerto Rico, and oh, my gosh, I think there was--to me it seemed like they were coming in ( by the hundred. You know, and then beings that they---in fact, they're still there working at Kennecott. A lot of them got jobs there at Kennecott. Not as much as the Mexican on the railroad. But they were more at Kennecott then ah-- then any other---well, now there is a lot of Mexicans in Kennecott, too. You know, the younger generation. VM: What brought them in? Did Kennecott recruit them, or did they just come in when they heard there were jobs? Or do you know?