Executive Order 782
The following described tract of land at Fairbanks, in the Territory of Alaska, is hereby reserved from sale or other disposition, subject to private rights, if any there be, and set apart as a military reservation for the use of the Signal Corps, U. S. Army, for a wireless telegraph station in the matter of the operation of telegraph lines in Alaska, viz:
That tract of land included within metes and bounds as follows:
Beginning at a stake, centered with a tack, and marked "Initial Stake No. 1;" thence N. 81° 50′ E. 18 feet to the left bank of the Chena River at its intersection with the south line of the Independent Lumber Company's property; thence in a southerly direction following the meanderings of the left bank of the Chena River approximately 853 feet; thence S. 81° 50′ W. 16 feet to a stake, centered with a tack, and marked "Stake No. 2;" thence S. 81° 50′ W. 1,100 feet to a stake, centered with a tack, and marked "Stake No. 3;" thence N. 8° 10′ W. 850 feet to a stake, centered with a tack, and marked "Stake No. 4;" thence N. 81° 50′ E. 982 feet to initial stake No. 1, the point of beginning. Area, 19 acres, more or less. All courses are referred to the true meridian.
Theodore Roosevelt.
The White House
- April 16, 1908.
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