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A History of Utah International: From Construction to Mining

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The story of how the Utah Construction Company, founded in Ogden, Utah in 1900, became Utah International, a multinational corporation, is known to historians of the American West but in all probability not by most of the people. The publication of this book remedies that omission.

During its first decades, the company built railroads and dams and used to be one of the most Six Companies Consortium that built Hoover Dam. Utah Construction used to be also engaged in a lot of war-contract activities throughout World War II. In the postwar period, the company expanded its activities into mining and land development and moved its headquarters to San Francisco. Changing its name to Utah Construction and Mining, and eventually to Utah International, the corporation became one of the successful multinational mining companies on the earth. In 1976, Utah International and General Electric negotiated the largest yet corporate merger in america.

Based on the Utah International archives housed in the Stewart Library at Weber State University, the story of Utah International describes more than projects: additionally it is the story of how two remarkable entrepreneurs, Marriner Stoddard Eccles and Edmund Wattis Littlefield, transformed the company incorporated in 1900 by the Wattis brothers into the largest and most profitable mining company in america.


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