15- known to the general public for something we merely planned to do than for anything that we had actually done in a long history of solid accomplishment. It was a new world to us, and not entirely to our liking a wonderland filled with false charges, planning boards and public relations men, conflicts of self-interest and community interest, conscientious public servants and charlatans. We have learned that sometimes getting the right to do the job is harder than doing the job. I shall not presume upon your hospitality to use this forum as a defense or an apology for any of the criticisms, justified or otherwise, that have been leveled against us by those who were opposed to what we were trying to do in the residential field. However, I would like to say this much in justification of the Alameda project. Fundamentally it seems to us in Utah Construction Company that this project is a prime example of the contribution that private enterprise can and should make in public welfare. The project is being built on land privately owned and acquired from private owners, privately financed, with the end result being the creation of new land and hence new wealth for a land-starved community. The only basic objection to