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USS 484 LT 1 WOODY ISLAND - Supplemental InformationArial U. S. NAVAL OPERATING BASE KODIAK, ALASKA 8 Farah 1944 MNORSRDUM Too Commaniant. Subjs Magnetic Loop Receiving Station end not Depot, Woody island. Title to property occupied by Navy installations. Rete (c) MB Kodiak itr Nfl161/14013 of 24 'Inn. um. (b) Ccmalteo 1tr mita, eerie 799, of 8 rob. 1914. 1. the question of penership of the land ocoupled by Bevy fsrsilities on Woody Island was apparently first reload by some esanll controversy hotness the civilian school teacher, an employee of the Bureau of Indian Attain. Deportment of the Interior, cod tho then officer4in=chargo of tho Loop Station. awes motioned in the course or conversation in this regard that the officer-in-ehaenge of the Not Depot wao occupying as ars officio as =tis which tae intended to be living quarters for the school teateher+ At Commander Rice's cuggeotion roforenoe (a) reqp0Ated information frac Cooalsoa on aubjeet matter. Reforenoo (b), in reply thoroto, indicates that no information on abject natter is annals from Ccraaleee'a Moo or from tho Territorial Lend affLee at Juneau. 2. its Navy installations on Woody Island are oho= on Contractor's Drawing ito. K.+20554, oopy ctflzittod herewith ee Annex "A". Attaohea to Anna; "A" is a rough penciled logond indicating the mploy:moat of the various buildings,. 3. in investigation of the rcoor&b in the Ceesaisaionor's Office In Kodiak and in the Dietriot Land Offloe et Anchorage has boon made to an endeavor to ascertain the title to this Ian&. Csi December 33, 1811 tho AeaiItant Seorota ry of the Novyrequested the eithdrawal of "A tract of about C4fb soros on Woody island lying he trim. the east shore of St. Peralta Earbor end the meet boundary of the Bunion Ors* Busying Ground (Idission Tract No. 2) end the eohool treat hold by tho Alaska Oohool authorities and excluding 1. zd occupied by native residents" for a tdavel Reservation. The Commissioner of the Gan.. eral Laud Orrice recommended such wit3sdrseai by letter to the Secretary of the Interior dated January Of 1912, and the Secretary of the Interior approved this recommendation on January 16, IOU. Photoatatio copy oP survey of this reservation is attached as linea "9". By Executive Order FFo. 2663 datedRanh 21,,191?,•thie property was reserved for the ti. N. Aasvy. In this connection. atte tion Se .,noted to enoloouro (1) of rotenone (b), indioating former o>srmrahip of a portion of thla tract by North American Commercial Company. For the roaacus.eet forth in that enclpzura and lot= mentioned heroin. information as to the history or U. S. RIVAL OPESATEEa BASE EODXAif a ALAZE& Bybee Wheeetta Loop Resolving Station end Net Depot° Pocrbr Want. Title to propertr cooupied by Navy Inetallatiove. 0 0 0 Oa • 6.0 • • • 0 0 • • • •S O a'• • OR • • 0 • • • • • • 0 0 a • the tract formerly otazed by the Horton American Co aroial Company le not available. The older navy buildings° which I am informed were conetruot• ed about 131? and 1018° apperontly lie within this tract. By ogre t° prebebly bbeteeen the Seoretary of the Bevy and the Secretary of the Interiore the bureau of Indian Affairs has received permieeion to use oerttsin of the building© on this tract for eohool purposes. The tis of this agre®ent aro not available hero° end are not !moon to the repro• sentsttve of that Bureau in charge of the school activity. 4. Area information oupplied tby the District land Office in Anclsrrcgt9 it appears that a certain tract of land Mown ea "AnehoreSs 01520' hos been patented to Women's Amerism 8aptiet Rome Mission Society. Patvnt to this lead is Vo. 1116848. It sea issued Vovesber 20e 1962 to the Sooleie and a delivered to Capt. Sioimy fl. V&ee1or° A.U.S. on April 86, 1143, Thi© patent dodo not appear to have been recorded in Kodiak© The Civilian Aeronautics Adainietration file© in Auobmrago chew that that Adainietration endeavored rather btttsrly and without stwcess to defeat the lesunnee or obtain a revocation of thio patent. They have eubaec qurntby recognised it end aro naw paying a rectal of 00 per sun= for e right of say for road purposes over mid property° aid an additional rental of 080 per annum for a communications pito, pert of which lies wi hin the boundaries of this property,. A photostat of the survey of the land ehioh ie Inoluded in this patent le submitted as Annex "C". It appears that Certain of the Savy bnildiege located on the met aide Of Ice Bases Lake ere within the boundaries of this patented land. 6. The treaty with Ruesie by *doh Ahad. wsa annexed provided that the churches trhtoh had been built by the Russian flovernment should remain the property of such znbere of the Greeks Oriental Church resident in the territory az may ohooso to torehlp An theme Anchorage reoordn shoe "Rnesian Grsele Church liieoion Reserve Tract d", photostat of the survey thereof attaohee as Atm=B "DW, and "lbmoten Orel Church 6dievion Rsserve Tract 8",,photostat of the surveythereof attached an Annex "Ere The records se to these two traote aro incomplete and neither Kodiak nor Anobarage has evidence of patent bowing boon issued on thins tracts. IIs. ear° as examination !n ,the field show' a smell church of the Ruaelan type probably on Russian Greek liieeion Tract A, and in viceoof the treaty provisioner these two tracts should, I believe° bo regarded es not acid© for religious uae. 6. a3 blue print of Civilian Aoronet<tiee Aclm1niutration Drawl g U D•S11i ©having the tab Ruootan Greek Libel= tracts clad the Baptist Iltasion tract ie ©tteohed es Acnes -'"F". This ie tho only drawing which hon come to my attention ehoaSn the relative positions of those treetop The Havel Rsacrce treat unfcrttmatoly is not ahoirza on this drawing. •20 U. S. RACAL ► >'e , I14G1 BASS UODIAEs AIWA Subs. &a natio Loop Receiving Station and Ret Depot, Woody Iolanda Title to property osoupied by Racy installations. o • o .a • • • • • o m s • • O • O is • • • o 0 0 0 0 • • • m o 0 0 • 9. The reet alar eyetem of envoy applicable to all publio lands toss been extended too Aloelea. liotever, a rectangular survey of Wilk and adjacent islands,has not tom Sdec Th_t federal lean relative to oettleasst end =try on public lends allont settlement thereon by the simple) act of physical entry upon the land, the marking thereon of the boundaries) of the chime. and tho posting of ratios on tho Claus, This must be followed by recordation vtthin ninety dgye of a notice of looa4 tion in the office of the U. S. 0assnS oloner of the gropv-r recording dietriot, in this ecce Kodiak. This entry and recordation vests] Lathe settler a valid right to receive pataut to tho land upon its being cur4 voyed and the performance of the reooecanry oandittono. All of Kodiak. Islands including all adjacent tslendos rooks and pinnacle° vrjthin fano utiles of tho shores thereof. T th certain immaterial exceptions. vias withdrawn frog settleumant, locations mole or entry by Raeoutive Order No. 8544 of February 10. 1944. Woody Island, being alit cin two ashes elf godlak Ialsnd, use withdrawn by this o'Cere However, from the date of acquisition by the United Status until the date of this Ebcooutive Drage it was paeaible for individuals to acquire vested rights in lend on Woody Island. Ths records in the Commissioner's Offioo in /iodide vietom destroyed try fire in 1018 mad it cannot nor be asoortained abet privet° rights b Woosiy Inland land may have beam acquired by individual sett/ars prior to the time of this fire.' Attention is also called to the fact tbat naithor the Conmiveloner's records In Kodiak nor the r000r&o of the District Lind Office is Anchorage ere indexed or abatracted geographically Completely acourato information would require an individual reading of thousands of reoorda in the files of both Kodiak and Anchorages a r, nifeat impossibility. Reliance as to the oontento of the reoords het been pllracsd in verbal information resolved from the custodian of such records. This information ie not binding on the land office. or any other branch of the federal goverment, end the opinions) ezpreaaad in this memorandummeat by qualified as Wing based on the information obtained. OE. It is reoonnded that by survey or other appropriate Beane the preoise location of the °rioting streams on Foody Island be determiasa with rcferotoe to the Rawl Reservation and the various booms tracts of lau6 cautioned heroins that a description of a trent of lead0410h vadll linguae all Rival etruoturoo on the reload be foriaulateds that tho Genera3 Lend Otfioo in Washington be requested to advice aa to the 0318= tame of ray adverse rights in this lands that should it develop that there le rw eonfliot beteatm this daaaoription and the paroela of lend t .t title to thloh is now vested in others herein mentioned. the Secretory U. S. NAVAL OPERATING EASE EODIAE, SAM Subjs isigsmtie Loop Receiving Station end Net Depot, Woody Island, Title to property occupied by Pavy installations. of the Navy be requested tiurough proper channels to rcquost ai of smeh land Prom entry end settlement and ite deeignatiaa no Reservation, Should it derelop that one or Erre Navy Structure© lend to which Individuals have acquired vested rights, proper steps should be taken to protect the Navy's otrnerehip of the structures and the acquiring of the right to occupy the land. lt. P. n$t1m, Lieut. V.S.R.R