Executive Order 960

It is hereby ordered that the northern part of Montague Point, Montague Island, Prince William Sound, Alaska, on which the United States cables are now landed, embracing all public lands included within metes and bounds as follows, be reserved from sale or other disposition, subject to private rights, if any there be, and set apart for the use of the Signal Corps, United States Army, in the operation of military telegraph lines in Alaska, viz:

Beginning, for the northwest corner, at a small stone monument at high-water mark (latitude 60° 22′ 25″ north; longitude 147° 08′ 00″ west), the position of which is determined by left tangent of Seal Island bearing S. 81° W.; and right tangent of Knowles Head bearing N. 12° E.; thence S. 28° E. 880 yards, to the southwest corner (latitude 60° 22′ 00″ north; longitude 147° 08′ 00″ west); thence N. 62° E. 2,640 yards, to the southeast corner (latitude 60° 22′ 00″ north; longitude 147° 05′ 30″ west), the position of which is determined by right tangent of Knowles Head bearing N. 9° E.; thence following the coast line, which bounds the reservation to the northward and eastward, to the point of beginning. All bearings are magnetic.

Theodore Roosevelt.

The White House

October 26, 1908.