IMPROVEMENTS ANNOUNCED BY JENNECOTT Kennecott Copper Corporation will spend an additional 18 million mil-lion dollars to improve facilities and operations at its Utah Copper Cop-per Division operations. The bulk of the expenditure 16 million dollars will be for expansion of the company's Central Power station at Magna. It will include the installation of a 75,000 kw turbine-generator, new boiler, cooling towers, electrical elec-trical switch equipment and a 20-foot extension to the present building. L. F. Pett, general manager of the Division, estimated the actual ac-tual work on the facilities at the power plant will commence late this Tall. The entire project is expected to be completed within IVz to three years. The new 75,000 kw generator will boost the Central Power Plant's output to 175,000 kw. Present facilities include two 25,000 kw and one 50,000 kw generators. The addition will satisfy the growing . electrical energy demands de-mands of the mine, mills and refinery. Other major expenditures approved ap-proved in the immediate future include: $742,500 to raise the tailings pond dike at the mills; $245,000 for new cradles for the Magna mill car dumper; $84,809 in supplemental funds in connection con-nection with laying new trackage track-age and electrification of the Carr Fork A Level and D dump line connection at the mine. . Other funds will be expended for office equipment at all properties, prop-erties, automotive equipment, conversion of mine wrecking crane, self propelled multiple tie tamper, ventilating facilities at the mines boiler shop and other equipment. , The 18 million dollars approved approv-ed for expenditure is in addition to 12 million dollars to be spent within the next two years for a new ore haulage tunnel from the bottom of the Bingham Canyon pit to the Copperton assembly yards at the mouth of the canyon.