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THE DEVELOPMENTS OF 1924 303

Alaska reindeer enterprise. I think it ought to be a good
reindeer country, could support many thousands of rein-
deer and so give to future residents of the island a per-
manent food supply easily obtained.

Sincerely yours,

(Signed) Carl J. Lomen.

Extracts from Newspapers

CANADA’S CLAIM TO WRANGEL ISLAND THOUGHT
ABANDONED; U. S. EXPEDITION TO VISIT IT

Stefansson, Who Wanted Ottawa to Take Over Arctic Waste
Disposes of Interest

Carl Lomen, of Nome, Alaska, Will Head Party and Raise
United States Flag

By D. M. LeBotjrdais

Nome, Alaska, June 20.—A new expedition will brave the Arctic
this summer to Wrangel Island, north of Siberia, and will leave a
memorial at the graves of Lorne Knight and Allan Crawford, of
Toronto. . . .

The new expedition, announced today, is the project of Carl
Lomen, of Nome, Alaska, head of the great reindeer industry of
Alaska. Vilhjalmur Stefansson, the explorer, who has been active
for several years in trying to hold Wrangel Island as British terri-
tory, has disposed of his interests on Wrangel Island to Lomen. . . .

(Regina, Saskatchewan, Leader, June 21, 1924.)

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