THE FOUNDING FAMILIES OF The Utah Construction Company
incorporated in Ogden, Utah, in 1900, with Thomas Dee as
president and a principal stockholder, along with banker David
Eccles and railroad-builders William H. Wattis, Edmund 0.
Wattis, and Warren L. Wattis. The company soon refashioned its
skills and accepted dam-building projects. In 1931 Utah
Construction led a consortium called Six Companies in a
successful bid to build the Hoover Dam.