OCR

In the Edificio Cia de Serguros Suizo Peruana, 370 Camana. This office was to handle, throughout construction, the arrival and departure of expatriate personnel and their families, recruit local labor and process such hires, make local material pur chares, and expedite all correspondence and communications between the stateside office in Denver and the jobsite. The temporary office at Tucson, Arizona, where all the preliminary planning work had been in progress since April 1, 1956, was closed June 15, 1956 and all records and personnel were moved to Denver, Colorado. On June 14, 1956 the contractor's personnel at Toquepala, housed temporarily in SPCC quarters at the mine, moved into a tent and trailer camp at Incapuquio where the project construction offices and shops were to be located. Incapuquio is located in a shallow canyon 4000 ft. below and come 12 miles by. road west of the Toquepala nine location. Equipment, materials, and supplies continued to arrive at the port of Ilo following the initial shipment received. June 6, 1956. Foley Brothers, Inc., constructing the permanent pier at Ilo, handled the chip to lighter to shore unloading of the early shipments while constructing a temporary mole for this purpose pending pier completion. The mole was completed on July 11, 1956 and Utah-Emkay took over the unloading of all subsequent shipments received. Nearly three and one half years later, with project construction essentially complete and all facilities transferred and in operation by Southern Peru Copper Corporation, the contractor's camp at Inca- puquio was officially, closed and abandoned on September 5, 1959, and the Denver office was closed on November l, 1959. Project finalization work was accomplished from Toquepala offices furnished by SPCC. There follow brief descriptive resumes of project permanent construction work performed, listed numerically according to major accounting areas. A section on Contractor temporary facilities is also contained therein.