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...years of far-ranging enterprise, Utah Construction & Mining Co. has spent hardly any money on advertising or public relations. For good reason. "We don't sell to the ultimate consumer," explains President Edmund W. Littlefield, 54. "We have relatively few customers, and relations with them are handled directly at the executive level...
...reason for Utah's success is stable management. Seven of the company's twelve directors are descendants of the industrious builders and bankers who founded the company in Ogden, Utah. Among the seven are Littlefield and onetime Federal Reserve Chairman Marriner S. Eccles, who has been Utah's chairman since 1940 but, after turning 78 last week, now calls himself "a part-time operator...
Conglomerate Miner. In 1959, the firm added "Mining" to its name in order to reflect newer operations that now account for 65% of its revenues. "Mining is our upward thrust," says Littlefield. The thrust started when Utah decided to adapt its earth-moving skills to open-pit mining projects. It has since become, in effect, a conglomerate miner...
...Down Under. Littlefield and his colleagues never undertake a project unless Utah is certain of a customer as well as a supply. Much of the Navajo coal, for instance, will be sold to large Western utilities. They will operate two steam plants near the mine to generate 1,510,000 kilowatts of electricity for six states. The company's newest thrust upward, however, is Down Under, where Utah and two partners will soon be shipping 4,500,000 tons of iron ore a year from the Mount Goldsworthy mine in western Australia. Utah is also developing six deposits...
Also Roger D. Fisher '43, professor of Law; Donald H. Fleming, professor of History; Alfred B. Harbage, Henry B. and Anne M. Cabot Professor of English Literature; Henry A. Kissinger '50, professor of Government; William N. Lipscomb Jr., professor of Chemistry; and John W. Littlefield '46, assistant professor of Medicine...