1871-1900 Yaquina Head Lighthouse Letter books

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Box 254 YB 1890, YH 1893, Isaac L. Smith & Edward Rice 1891

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All communications should be addressed to "THE LIGHT-HOUSE BOARD" Treasury Department Office of the Light-House Board.

B. Enclosures: One. Subject: Yaquina Bay Whistling Buoy. July 14, 1893 Bearings.

Comdr. O. W. Farenholt, U.S.N., Inspector 13th Light-House District,

Portland, Oregon.

Sir: Referring to forms 87 for Yaquina Bay Outside Bar Whistling Buoy, seacoast of Oregon, transmitted with your letter of 3 July '93, it is found in plotting the position of the buoy on Coast and Geodetic Survey chart No. 6057 by the sextant angles, using them in two sets, that the two positions are almost identical, while the bearings on Yaquina Head (Cape Foulweather) Light-House and on Yaquina Old Tower of the four bearings given, do not cut the position by angles. The sextant angles and the chart seem to indicate that the bearings on Yaquina Head (Cape Foulweather) Light-House and Yaquina Old Tower should be, respectively, approximately N. and N.E. 1/8 N.

The Board requests you to revise and return From 87 inclosed.

Respectfully, R.D. Evans Commander, U.S.N. , Naval Secretary.

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Box 251 YB YH reprimand stove 1874 to 1875

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Yaquina Light Station Appointment of Officer in Charge as Inspector of Customs

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Sir:

Enclosed herewith I send you a copy of a letter from the Honorable the Secretary of the Treasury dated January 30th, 1875, asking whether any objection exists to the appointment or assignment to duty of the officer, now under direction of the Light-House Board, who is in charge of this LightHouse property at Yaquina, as Inspector of Customs. I also enclose an extract from the report of Special Agent Goddard of the Treasury Department in which the same matter is referred to. In this connection you are requested

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quested to inform this office who has charge of Yaquina light-station; and whether it is true as stated in Mr. Goddard's report, that he is in the reception of $500??? per year; and also, if there is such person there - whether there is any objection to his assignment to duty as Inspector of Customs.

Very respectfully, ??? Naval Secretary.

Commdr L. Kempff Inspector 13 L.H. District Astoria, Oregon.

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Yaquina Bay Payment of Custodian

May 13th ???

In reply to yours of April 25th I have to say that the amounts sent you per letter of October 10th, 1875, was to pay R.A. Bensell custodian of Yaquina Light-Station his salary in that capacity, from November 10th, 1874, to September 14th, 1875. That being understood to be the term of his service. As the service was rendered during parts of two different fiscal years, it was necessary to send a portion of the funds, ($384.78) from the appropriation for Salaries of Keepers of Light Houses for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1875, and the remainder from the appropriation for Salaries of Keepers of Light Houses

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Box 245 1893 to 95 YB lights CF repairs

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(All communications should be addressed to "THE LIGHT-HOUSE BOARD") M.M.B. 3 Enclosures.

Treasury Department, Office of the Light-House Board, Washington, D.C., 22 March, '95.

Marjor J. C. Post, U.S.A., Engineer 13th L. H. District, Portland, Oreg.

Sir:

Enclosed is sent you a copy of a letter from Hon. Binger Hermann, M. C., dated 19 March, '95 together with a copy of its enclosure, a petition of citizens of Yaquina Bay, Oregon, asking for the establishment of a stake light on Ford's Point (Coquille Point,) for the purpose of defining the channel between McLane's Point and the end of the Bulk Head at Yaquina; and a tracing of Yaquina Bay.

The Board requests you to confer with the Inspector of the District, and with him make a joint report and recommendation as to the necessity for and advisability of establishing the light in question.

Respectfully, George F.F. Wilde Commander, U.S.N., Naval Secretary.

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