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The Company also completed three Industrial construction projects: The Cladding-McBean sand plant at Ione, California, the expanded ore- processing facilities for Pima Mill in Arizona, and the Kennecott Copper grinding mill in Utah. Rounding out the Company's building activities in California were the Alameda County Heliport-Garage in downtown Oakland; Barrows Hall, a nine-story building for the University of California, Berkeley; and a fifty-bed hospital building at Castle Air Force Base. Work was completed in 1963 on the Yanhee Dam in Thailand; the Karnafuli Hydroelectric Project, Pakistan; the Comilog Railway In the and several of Marcona's new mine and mill facilities at San Nicolas, Peru. In Tunisia construction was finally getting underway on a rockfill dam for the Tunisian Government. Utah had also undertaken the construction of a University Center in Nigeria and the expansion of Standard Oil's Conchon Refinery in Peru. Utah was also sponsoring the construction of the six-mile, thirty-foot diameter Manapouri Tunnel in New Zealand. The Company's Australian subsidiary was building the Burnie Breakwater in Tasmania and the West Barwon Dam in Victoria. The largest Australian project, however, was the construction of a concrete dam and excavation of 18 miles of 20-feet diameter tunnel near Island Bend, part of the nation's Snowy Mountain plan, which in 1963 was nearing the halfway mark. Dredging' With its two large dredgesactively employed over most of the year. Companyls dredging operations were highly satisfactory. The ALAMEDA maintained operations near Osaka, Japan, under a long-term lease to Japan Industrial Land Development Co. Ltd. Utah continued to provide technical assistance for this reclamation project and has an equity interest in JILD, with a number of prominent Japanese firms. The FRANCISCO complete a channel clearance project on the Sacramento River, California., for the U. S. Army Corps of Engineers and then began the West Basin Project in Angelas. Land Development Alameda Utah developed some 400 acres of useful land by reclaiming a tide- land area on the south shore of the City of Alameda. The Company built and leases 231,000 square feet of shopping center stores and buildings on 60 acres of this property. Two of the major problems encountered on the project for the last several years were brought to a successful conclusion, and earlier unsatisfactory operating results were reversed. A major