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Show ed. No longer is it necessary for young people to leave Utah upon graduation from school to seek employment. j The westward shift of popu- lation as a result of new industries indus-tries has brought greater markets mar-kets for local farm products and great promise for western farmers. farm-ers. To attract new industries, Mr. Buchman advised following the principles that guided the Mormon pioneers in locating their communities and farms. Pointing out that the pioneers selected the sheltered valley where water and timber were available, Mr. Buchman suggested suggest-ed that Utah provide a "sheltered "shelter-ed valley" as an attraction for new industries. Here in Utah, he said, we are admirably equipped to meet major production neds and as a result may reasonably anticipate antici-pate our full yhare of future industrial in-dustrial expansion which will bring to everyone a greater sense of security and overall improvement improve-ment of economic standards and j opportunities. vate property; both employ labor; la-bor; pay taxes; take risks; buy and sell products and invest capital. ca-pital. Both are beginning to realize rea-lize that the growth of a state can best be measured by the de-jvelopment de-jvelopment of its basic industries. The farms, the mines and other industries associated directly with the production of physical goods determine, in the long run an area's economic growth, jobs and total population. There is no question that the farmer and the business man are on the same team." The basis of purchasing power for farm products is industrial payrolls, Mr. Buchman stated. lie said industrial employment had doubled in Utah county in the last 10 years but that agricultural agri-cultural employment in the county had risen four fold. This important trend which brought greater strength to the county's agriculture resulted from a substantial sub-stantial improvement in an overall over-all economy and basic purchasing purchas-ing power through sound industrial indus-trial growth, the mining executive execu-tive declared. Realistic nd well-informed businessmen and agriculturists, Mr. Buchman said, realize the o LOUIS BUCHMAN GIVES ADDRESS AT BYU OCT. 17 Agriculture and industry are Utah's great economic team, Louis Buchman, Rcneral manager manag-er of Kennecott Copper Corporation's Corpor-ation's western mining divisions, said October 17 before the Community-Industry Conference at Brigham Young University. "No two groups have a stronger strong-er community of interest," he said. "Both are the great exponents ex-ponents in America today of pri- aepenaence or tne economic structure upon the continued growth of all parties. Labor must prosper to buy food the farmer farm-er must prosper to buy industry's products and industry must prosper to pay labor's wage. Complimenting agriculture on its advanced production methods, me-thods, Mr. Buchman stated that in 1820 it took the work of three people on the farm to produce the food and fiber necessary to clothe and feed one city dweller. He said that agriculturists .have taken advantage of technological advances so that today one farm worker produces the food and fiber to feed and clothe 13 other persons besides himself. The American Am-erican farm has become 52 times more productive than the primitive prim-itive farmer in India, Mr. Buchman Buch-man stated, aiding that the average av-erage farmer today enjoys the highest standard of living in his history. Due primarily to new industries indus-tries entering the state employing employ-ing people and providing markets mar-kets for products, Utah in the last decade has increased her population one-fourth, he declar- |