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Show Plenty of Opportunities "You young people are standing waist deep in wonderful oppor'-tunities",( oppor'-tunities",( L. C. Montgomery, president of the Utah Cattle and Horse Growers association, told exhibitors at the Fourth Annual Intermountain Junior .Fat Sft.ock show at a banquet held June 5 in their honor in the Hotel Utah. He stressed the point that our youth today is looking elsewhere for "greener pafetures", and overlooking over-looking the possibilities of Utah's resources. Utah holds more opportunity op-portunity than many people realize, rea-lize, he said, adding that "the natural resources of this state have sa yet scarcely beWn scratched". scratch-ed". Among the possibilities that confront Utah youth, Mr. Montgomery Mont-gomery listed the mining and livestock live-stock industries. "In Utah we are successfully mining all of the precious metals found elsewhere in the world and in addition we have minerals and mineral waxes found nowhere else in commercial commer-cial quantities. "We have more coal is one great vein that underlies the eastern part of this state than is found in the entire state of Pennsylvania, Pen-nsylvania, and this great vein lies next to mountains of high quality iron ore. "We have mountains of salt, mountains of sulphur and mineral fertilizer, as well as mountains of epsom salts", he told the . junior stock growers. He emphasized the fact that all these industries are closely related to livestock production. Development of electricity in Utah is another opportunity Mr. Montgomery listed for the youth, of today. This development would be important to farm and livestock industries because "electricity "elec-tricity will lift the w-aters from the rivers of our deep canyons and reclaim the fertile desert lands near your homes". M i |