Germano Pucci, Golden Spike Oral History Project, GS-20, American West Center, University of Utah

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-8- PUCCI . N: That sounds ••• And that was for eight hours? P: No, we worked a little bit longer than eight hours. I don't remember exactly. How did you find out about me? N: We talked with, do you know Burnice Houghton Gerristen, P: Yes. N: Mrs. Houghton had the store out at Promontory. P: Yes. N: Well, · .we talked with her yesterday and I asked her if there were any Italian section men out there and she said oh yes. There was one man named Cocci, and ·then she told me about you, and I asked her if you were still around and she said yes and so I wanted to ••• P: Oh, yes, I see, I ju~t wanted to ••• Now that fellow Cocci use to be section foreman up ?t Promontory and he lived in the Sparks now. N: Yes, that' what she told us. P: He's pretty well up in years too, see, he and I come from the same town. , \ N: She didn't know wllre he came from. P: He carne from the same town. Practically, practically in them day all the people working for the Southern Pacific, they practically all '\ ... from town, you know what I mean, close together there. T: Yes, in the old country they're from the same region. P: Yes, usually carne on boat and they get together, that's the way it used to be. N: Well, when you were working down there in the tressel how lon~ did you work there? P: I work there practically two years. t