y construction activities utah construction & mining co engages on a world-wide basis in most categories of heavy construction and engi neering operations such as railroads highways tunnels dams and powerhouses industrial plants commercial buildings dredging and port development operations in many areas of industrial activity the company offers a complete turn-key service that is design process and plant engineering and construction operations are performed by the parent company a number of wholly owned subsidi aries and in joint venture association with other major contracting companies domestic operations during 1959 utah's domestic construction activities in cluded a challenging and diversified list of projects for major u s industrial and public utility companies and city state and federal agencies representative of the varied assignments performed in 1959 were a 3.2 mile rail road tunnel for kennecott copper corporation 7 and iy mile power tunnels for pacific gas & electric company and southern california edison respectively launching pads and related facilities at an air force missile base and hydraulic dredging operations for u s corps of engi neers port of oakland california and city of long beach california completed during 1959 were the st lawrence seaway projects and table rock dam and powerhouse in which we held a joint venture participation i pictured above is our 30-inch hydraulic dredge ala mbda passing through the panama canal in august 1959 en route to an assignment to deepen and dredge a segment of the ship channel in the delaware river a project sponsored by the u s corps of engineers the alameda has a self-contained 12,500 kw power plant and is not dependent on availability of shore power the 30-inch dredge franciscan is currently employed by the port authority of the city of long beach california in a harbor expansion and im provement project at far left is shown primary drilling and mucking operations involved in driving a 7y%-mile concrete lined power tunnel including construction of an in take structure and a gate shaft for southern califor nia edison company through mountainous terrain east of fresno california this 12,500,000 tunnel awarded utah by competitive bid in 1958 is one phase of the vast mammoth pool power project and was completed by our company in december 1959 shown at the right is a comprehensive aerial view of a l,500-ton~per-day carbonate leach uranium ore processing mill engineered and constructed by utah for homestake-sapin partners near grants new mexico the facility went on stream in mid-1958 or 16 months from drawing board to operating status completion of certain auxiliary facilities including a powerhouse extended into early 1959 also included in utah's overall responsibility was the sinking of three mine shafts to the ore bodies below