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Speaking of Minnesota -- did you know that Smithie hears from his brother there quite often. S.J. Smith is his name, and he is with the Merchant's National Bank, Saint Paul. He states that three air lines are making Saint Paul and Minneapolis terminus this coming summer: Lawson, the Curtiss people and a company from Winnepeg. In looking over that territory we find that Minnesota has but nine cities over ten thousand in population, while Massachusetts has sixty one cities of ten thousand or over. At the present time, in conjunction with our regular capitalization work we are getting landing field dope from as many of these 61 towns as possible. Up to date we have had several very interesting replies from the mayors.

The International Aircraft distributors for the Avro in N.E. ) are still phoning us to the end that we take up their sales propistion for Springfield. But as they have not made us a definite offer, we have not been able to do anything with it. As we understand it they want us to take two Avros-- and be their representatives for Springfield and vicinity. Yesterday [[strikethrough]] mk [[/strikethrough]] Smith met a girl at Wellesley from Springfield and she told him they were getting twenty dollars a ride last year, at Springfield. Sounds pretty good. 

Glad to know that Giants were able to have a flip. Makes a good news item alright. Send us some more

Well - we hope to have something good to report this week end-- so cheerio for this time,

With best regards,
C. Oren Smith
H.F. Banks.

P.S. - was out with Kimber last night - and he sends his best to you and Donaldson.