290 UTAH INTERNATIONAL: A BIOGRAPHY OF A BUSINESS and memorabilia of Dorothy Bowman Hetzel, Patricia McNamara, Helen Jarman, Mattie Wattis Harris, Marguerite Louise Heydt, Sharon Ruth Hite Lewis, James William Hite, Marilyn Harris Hite, Henry Harris Hite, and Earl Corey. Obituaries and newspaper articles from the archives of the Ogden Standard-Examiner were likewise invaluable as were Weber County probate records and abstracts of titles, and various editions of the Ogden City Directory. W. Dee Halverson, The Wattis Family History (1710-1934) (Salt Lake City: Heritage Associates, Ltd., 1994), and Leland Cutler, Early Life of E.O. Wattis (privately published, ca. 1930), provided wonderful data on two of the company’s founders, while Harold R. Schindler, Orrin Porter Rockwell: Man of God, Son of Thunder (Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press,1966; second edition, 1983), glimpsed the arrival in Utah of their pioneer father. Information on the company’s major founding investors came principally from the Dee Family History, in private circulation through Thomas D. Dee III, and Leonard J. Arrington, David Eccles: Pioneer Western Industrialist (Logan: Utah State University Press. 1975); After the founding of the company in 1900, minutes of various company meetings, in particular Minutes of Meetings of the Board of Directors and Minutes of Shareholders Meetings (housed in the Broken Hill Proprietary offices in Houston), along with internal communications and annual and quarterly reports, formed the essential core of research materials. Additionally crucial to understanding the first several decades of the Utah story were two in-house studies of company history: E.R. Lubbers, “An Indexed History of Utah Construction & Mining Co.,” 1962-64 (5 volumes), and John McInerney, “Memoranda on Company History,” 1974 (7 volumes). Reminiscences, letters, and clippings in the possession of Paul Wattis, Sr., Patricia McNamara (the Lawler letters), Edna Wattis Fretwell, Edna Wattis Dumke, and Barbara Wattis Kimball Browning served as invaluable references to much of the story during the first half of the twentieth century. Typescripts of “The Reminiscences of Lester $. Corey” (ca. 1954) and “Family Recollections of Edna Wattis Dumke” (ca. 1977) shed much light on behind-the-scenes activities during the halcyon days. Always useful throughout, but particularly for the early years, were