during the year utah construction company performed operations under two contracts for kennecott copper corporation at its world-famed open pit copper m ine ot b ing he m , utah pict u red ooove is one of tour of our huge electric shovels assigned to this project to strip overburden which was transported away by a con tinuous fleet of 40 of our 22 cubic yard heavy-duty dump trucks nine million cubic yards of overburden were excavated and moved under this contract at the right is the entrance of railroad tunnel 5490 being driven by our company 17,000 feet through the wall of the bingham pit in order to permit rail shipment by the owner of mined ore from the mine site this project is scheduled for completion in eorly 1959 utah has a long and excellent record ot perform ing sf m i lar operations for not only kennecott copper corporation but other moior iron and non-ferrous meta i processors throughout the we including the design engineering and construction of attendant refineries mine plant anc surface facilities fifty miles outside riverton wyoming and adjacent to one of the major u.s uranium discoveries construction by our company of a 7,500,000 uranium oxide processing mill plant and personnel housing facilities for lucky me uranium corporation is nearing 61 percent completion stage in this instance we furnished the owner a complete package in that utah performed the exploration developed the metallurgical process designed engineered and is constructing the facilities utah is also performing the strip mining under long term contract