Executive Order 702

by President of the United States

The following-described tracts of public land, situate in the District of Alaska, are hereby reserved, subject to private rights, for the use of the Signal Corps, United States Army, in its operation and maintenance of the United States Military Telegraph Lines in Alaska, viz:

Donnelly's.—Beginning at a post on the bank of the Big Delta River, about three-quarters of a mile south of Donnelly's Road-house, marked “U. S. M. R. No. 1”; thence south one mile to post marked “U. S. M. R. No. 2”; thence east one mile to post marked “U. S. M. R. No. 3”; thence north one mile to post marked “U. S. M. R. No. 4”; thence west one mile to point of beginning.

McCallum's.—Beginning at a post three hundred feet east and one thousand nine hundred and fifty-six feet north of northeast corner of McCallum's Road-house, marked “U. S. M. R. No. 1”; thence south one mile to post marked “U. S. M. R. No. 2”; thence east one mile to post marked “U. S. M. R. No. 3”: thence north one mile to post marked “U. S. M. R. No. 4”: thence west one mile to point of beginning.

Paxson's.—Station Reserve: Beginning at a post one hundred and fifty-two feet north, and four hundred and sixty-two feet west of northwest corner of Paxson's Road-house, marked “U. S. M. R. No. 1”; thence east one thousand feet to post marked “U. S. M. R. No. 2”; thence north one thousand feet to post marked “U. S. M. R. No. 3”; thence west one thousand feet across Gulkana River to post marked “U. S. M. R. No. 4”; thence south one thousand feet across Gulkana River to point of beginning.

Paxson's.—Timber Reserve: Beginning at a post one mile south and two thousand one hundred and twelve feet east of initial point of station reserve marked “U. S. M. R. No. 1”; thence west three thousand nine hundred and sixty feet to post marked “U. S. M. R. No. 2”; thence south one mile to post marked “U. S. M. R. No. 3”; thence east three thousand nine hundred and sixty feet to post marked “U. S. M. R. No. 4”: thence north one mile to point of beginning.

Right of Way.—A strip of land one hundred feet wide (fifty feet on each side of the center of telegraph line) along the United States Military Telegraph Line from Gulkana Station, near the mouth of the Gulkana River, to McCarty Station, near the mouth of the Big Delta River; which owing to its length of one hundred and sixty-one miles, more or less, is necessarily unstaked.

The reservation at Central and at Summit, and that portion of the right of way between Northfork and McCarty, Alaska, which were reserved for military telegraph purposes by Executive Order, dated May 24, 1905, (G. O. No. 83, War Department, June 5, 1905), having become useless for the purposes for which reserved, are hereby placed under the control of the Secretary of the Interior, under Act of Congress approved July 5, 1884 (23 Stat. L., 103), for disposition under said act or as may be otherwise provided by law.

Theodore Roosevelt.

The White House,

October 23, 1907.

Notes

Revokes (in part)

• Executive Order 328-B, May 24, 1905

See related

• Executive Order 4131, January 22, 1925