Utah Construction Company

Overview This collection contains copies of the photographs that were used during the 2004 UC/UI symposium “Making Tracks.”

Overview An inventory of the collection contains items related to Utah Construction Company. It includes financial records, company correspondence and information of W.H. Wattis, George Bowman, Ann Bowman, Estelle Bowman, Donald Bowman, William Bowman, and Lester Corey.

Scope and Contents Information about the Utah Construction Company and Nevada. Text, maps, and

photographs are taken from Only the Mountains Remain by Nora Linjer Bowman. Photocopied,

oversize manuscript drawer. Donated by Bill Farr, 2005.

Overview The David Eccles Papers contain diverse documentation recording the life of David Eccles. Among the types of documents are correspondence, miscellaneous business records, account books, day books, biographical and genealogical materials, newspaper clippings and a trial transcript of the Eccles-Geddes trial. The time frame runs from 1861 with a census of Scotland, until approximately 1929 when David Eccles son, Royal began to obtain both...

Overview This collection contains a copy of speeches given by E. W. Littlefield from 1952-1997. Also, included are letters from various people congratulating Littlefield on his election as President of Utah Construction and Mining Co. Of interest is a report on Utah’s Mining in Russian and a photograph with accompanying text about the company owned ranches in Montello, NV.

Scope and Contents Standard Examiner installments of E.O. Wattis autobiography, “E.O. Wattis PensStory of Earliest Experience,” February 5, 1934, and “Corey and Wattis Become Noted WesternContractors,” February 6, 1934. Also included are photocopies of photographs of the UtahConstruction Company’s early days in the late 19 th century, and E.O. Wattis with H.W. Morrisonat the site of Hoover Dam in 1931; and a letter from Marsha Lundgren, Development Directory...

Overview Postcards c.a. 1900-1920 of the Feather River Western Pacific Railroad Utah-California route. Black and white, color, sepia. Scenes include Feather River Bridge, Feather River Canyon, Feather River Highway, and various scenic views near Oroville, California.

Scope and Contents Letter to the Special Collections Department, Stewart Library, Weber StateUniversity from George Brasell of Christchurch, New Zealand dated May 2002. This letterconcerns his involvement with the World War II New Zealand Hospital Ship, “Wanganella”.This ship was moored in the Manapouri Deep Cove while the Utah Construction Companyhelped build the first tailrace tunnel project there in Doubtful Sound off the coast of SouthIsland, New...

Scope and Contents Poem written by civil engineer, George R. Thenn, Jr., “Increasing Alameda, a

History 2005.” Included are explanatory endnotes about the poem in which one refers to a line in

the poem about the Utah Construction Company. Donated by George R. Thenn, Jr., 2005.