Executive Order 920

by President of the United States

It is hereby ordered that all that tract of public land at Tanana, adjoining the military reservation of Fort Gibbon, Alaska, included within metes and bounds as hereinafter set forth, be and hereby is 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, United States Army, viz:

Beginning at Corner No. 1, marked by an iron-pipe monument about 3 feet high and about 3 inches in diameter, being centered with a tack by means of a wooden plug, and placed at the intersection of the east line of the Fort Gibbon, Alaska, Military Reservation and the north line of S. A. Homestead Claim of the North American Transportation and Trading Company, said point of intersection being approximately 668 feet due north of the monument at the southeast corner of the said Fort Gibbon, Alaska, Military Reservation; thence S. 83° 30′ E. 800 feet, following the north boundary line of the said homestead, to Corner No. 2, marked by a monument of the same description as said monument at Corner No. 1; thence due north 1,000 feet to Corner No. 3, marked by a monument of the same description as said monument at Corner No. 1; thence N. 83° 30′ W. 800 feet to Corner No. 4, marked by a monument of the same description as said monument at Corner No. 1, and situated on the east line of the said Fort Gibbon, Alaska, Military Reservation; thence due south 1,000 feet, following the east boundary line of the said Fort Gibbon, Alaska, Military Reservation, to Corner No. 1, the place of beginning; containing an area of 18.25 acres, more or less. All courses are referred to the true meridian.

The said premises include a part of the homestead entry of Arthur J. Campbell; which entry has been relinquished as to so much of the land as is covered by this Order, by deed of the said Arthur J. Campbell, dated March 23, 1908, and recorded March 30, 1908, in Volume 2 of Deeds, page 250, Rampart recording district, Alaska.

T. Roosevelt.

The White House

July 25, 1908.