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Show I UTAH YOUNG MEN I ! LEAVE FOR INDIA Salt Lake. Jan. 5. Two young mn of Murray, Felix and John Obelander. are leaving this morning for Burma, India, where they will bo employed by the Moha Chang Smelting & Ex-pJoratlon Ex-pJoratlon company. Felix Obelander is to have charge of the electrical work at the smelter of which Arthur, another brother, is one el the chief stockholders and general manager, and John Obelander is to be in charge of the experimental station on the ranch. This latter property is operated under the name of the II smelting company, but is the private f property of Arthur Obelander. An Interesting story is behind the departure of the two Obelander boys today. Seven years ago an English I capitalists came to Utah to investl- I gate the smelters. He visited the ! works at Murray, where Arthur Obe lander was employed. It fell to the lot of the young man to show the English visitor through the smelter, and so thorough was his work of explanation ex-planation of the. workings of the plant that upon return to his own country the Englishman wrote a letter to Arthur Obelander, offering him a responsible re-sponsible position. This offer was accepted and the young man has since worked himself up to be general manager man-ager for the company. While engaged In operating the smelter for the English capitalists, Arthur discovered a body of ore that (l -J was known to be In the vicinity, but had not been definitely located. Ho subsequently made a trip to London, where he organized the Moha Chang Smelting & Exploration company, and later Invested in a cattle ranch, where an attempt will be made to raise sheep for the first time in that particular par-ticular locality of India. Felix and John Obelander, who are leaving here today, will sail from San j I Francisco January 8 on the steamer Shlnyo Maru. going directly to India. For ten years they have been em ployed in the Murray smelters, being successful at their work. Their experience ex-perience there will be brought into utilization in their new duties. At first the young men were In doubt ae to whether they should both leave their aged parents, but the father fath-er and mother, who are respectively 86 and 80 years old, urged them to take advantage of the offer. The ranch to which the young men are going consists of 420O acres of choice agricultural land, and it is also rich in mineral deposits. On this property pro-perty is located the famous workings of the Burma mines, limited. It is one of the richest producers in the orient and was the point at which Arthur Obelander discovered the much-sought ore. 00' |