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LIGHT HOUSE BOARD
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APR 15 1907
Ent'd APR 15 190

Department of Commerce and Labor
OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY
Washington

Sir:

This Department has the honor to state in reply to your letter dated April 6, 1907, relative to the old light-house reservation at Yaquina Bay, Oregon, that the site was transferred to the War Department on October 24, 1888, and that upon receipt of the information contained in several endorsements by that Department upon a letter from Senator Gearin, dated March 23, 1906, to the effect that the War Deparment had no further use for the site, the Light-House Board reassumed its control.

On May 12, 1906, the reservation was transferred to the Treasury Department for the use of the Life Saving Service, subject to the future needs of the Light-House Establishment.

This Department also states that the Light-House Board, after a careful examination of the locality and consideration of the possibility of the need to establish additional aids to navigation in the near future upon the reservation, is of the opinion that it is not advisable either to sell or lease the reservation, and in that opinion this Department concurs.

I have the honor to be, Sir,
Your obedient servant,
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Secretary.

Hon. Jonathan Bourne,
The Shoreham,
Washington, D.C.