stefansson-wrangel-09-05-058

Stef. Arctic Ex.

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June 17th, 1921.

V. Stefansson, Esq., Ellison-White Sevens Chatauqua Circuit, Pocatello, IDAHO.

Dear Stefansson,

Enclosed please find a news item that came in yesterday to the ’’Vancouver Province", and which I thought might be of some small interest to you.

I checked over the Memorandum of Agreement in regard to the Exploration Company to-day, and hope to have a typewritten copy to mail you to-morrow.

Yours sincerely, AJ Taylor

AJTT : W Enc.

32 UP

Despite this fact farmers for months have found it almost impossible to obtain loans adequate to carry on their business.

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Re Stefannson

JAMES T. KOLBERT (United Press Staff Correspondent )

WASHINGTON, June 15- America is about to reclaim her “forgotten empire" to thenorth. And through the process of reclamation Uncle Sam will realize millions of dollars on an investment of $7,200,000.

Scott Bone, newly selected governor of Alaska, who took the oath of office today, in an interview with the United Press declared Alaska is a land of untold wealth which he hoped to develop to a marked degree.

Alaska, he said, seems to have been forgotten during the last few years. Its population has steadily dwindled. Divided authority has killed the pioneer spirit and created discouraging obstacles Bone said.

Bone hopes to revive the pioneer spirit of Alaska and bring it into its own. In this he said he would havethe active co-operation of President Harding, Secretary of the Interior Fall and other administration officials.

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