Executive Order No. 2537

[Naval Radio Stations for Alaska]

The White House, February 21, 1917.

    It is hereby ordered that all of the lands of the United States herein-
after described be, and the same are hereby, withdrawn from settlement,
location, sale, or entry and reserved for the use of the Navy Department
of the United States as a distant control receiving station, to be used
in conjunction with naval radio station at Mile 31 1/2, near Cordova,
Alaska:
  All lands of the United States  within one-fourth of a mile of that
point on the Copper River and Northwestern Railroad, Alaska, desig-
nated as Mile 7 1/2, and located on the left side of the tracks of said
railroad, traveling from Cordova, Alaska.

WOODROW WILSON.