stefansson-wrangel-09-05-062

Stef. Arctic Ex.

Blackfoot, Idaho June 22 21 A.J. Taylor Credit Foncier Bldg Vancouver, B.C. Canada.

Your letter July June sixteen am wiring Lindeberg sell you boat for least reasonable valuation you to sell it to company for shares ^ ^lind to be given him stop with further reference publicity tell papers company being formed by public spirited Canadians partly because they believe money can be made in north but mainly and because they desire for reasons of national advantage to draw attention to resources already discovered in north by Stefansson stop use

(2) your imagination along that line my belief is that the best way to conceal our immediate purpose is to center people's minds on some other supposed object wire me when money is needed.

V. Stefansson