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Ruth Townsite - Kennecott Copper Corporation employed Utah Construction Company to remove the intire town site of its Ruth, Nevada, open pit mine to a location outside the limits of the ore body, and to construct ten additional dwellings as well. Work included preparation of sites, construction of foundations and installation of all utilities, as well as the actual town removal. In all, 126 buildings were moved including 65 dwellings, a 7,652 sq. ft. office building, two churches, bunkhouses, a hotel-boarding house and miscellaneous other buildings of various sizes. The cost of this project was about $1,272,000. San Diego Housing - Accommodations for 1226 families were provided in Claremont, a 215 acre community built to alleviate an acute housing shortage in the San Diego area. Two and three bedroom, single-family homes and one and two bedroom duplexes were included in the total of 939 structures, valued at a total of $11,100,000. Buildings were frame construction, and had concrete floors covered with asphalt tile. Most units were equipped with window shades and curtain rods, gas heaters, water heaters, ranges, refrigerators and wall furnaces. A few were completely furnished. Garbage and rubbish collection, sewage service and property maintenance were included in rents. The homes were built to be sold as well as rented. Fort Huachuca Housing in California for the Hauchuca Terrace, Inc. in the amount of $1,100,000. Defense Housing Project in Davenport, Iowa for Ridgeview Homes, Inc. in the amount of $5,350,000. Silver Bell Housing Project near Tucson, Arizona for American Smelting and Refining Company in the amount of $1,203,500. Marcona Mining Ore Loading Dock - Efficient and well designed ship handling and loading facilities were required for the volume export of high grade iron ore mined by Marcona Mining Company in Peru. Utah Construction Company, through its subsidiary Utah Co. of the Americas, designed, engineered and constructed the entire waterfront facility at San Juan Bay in conjunction with the Pacific Bridge Company. A 1100-foot dock was provided, consisting of 300 feet of rock fill and more than 800 feet of reinforced concrete pier, supported on 12-inch H piling. A gantry crane, mounted on rails and fed continuously by a dock conveyor, completely loads the ore ships without ship movement, and can put more than 10,000 tons of ore aboard ship in less that eight hours. This isolated establishment requires large amounts of supplies, and the size of the pier permits the unloading of such material from cargo vessels at the same time ore ships are being loaded.