Emilio Mayorga opened Mayorga's Welding in 1963 as a one-man operation in a two-car garage. He worked on a cattle trailer for Mr. Frank Auza as one of his first paid jobs. Mr. Auza was a well-known sheep herder in the community. In addition, Emilio would perform minor maintenance on the neighborhood's rakes, shovels, and axes. Emilio would buy tools like a drill press and a small lathe as soon as he had the money, followed by a band saw, a larger lathe, and still another drill press, etc. As more people learned about Mayorga's Welding, more work began to pour in. Jobs started to come in from organizations like APS, Mountain Bell, the Forest Service, neighborhood pulp wood cutters, well drillers, and truck owners/operators. Flagstaff had found the tiny