Vol 348 Engineer Reports 13th Dist. 1873 and 1874 CF Exhibted YB Discontinued

reef the mouth of Yaquina and passed up to Cape Foulweather inside. And again I would call your attention, and through you that of the department to the important fact that the Coast of Oregon is less supplied with lights than any other of same length. All which is most respectfully submitted Very respectfully, Your obedient servant (signed) Ben Simpson

Hon. J.H. Mitchell USS Washington DC  

Office of the Light House Engineer Thirteenth District Portland, Oregon, January 7, 1874

SIR: In compliance with the directions of the Board contained in a Circular, dated December 7, 1873, in regard to the Titles to Lands and the papers ???cepary to lie forwarded to enable the Attorney General to establish their validity, the enclosed papers and maps relating to the Light House Sites in this District are submitted. After a diligent search among the archives of this office, they are the only ones to be found having any bearing upon the subject. These relate only two of the several Stations, and to the only two at which Lighthouse have been constructed since this portion of the Pacific Coast was made into a separate District. It is to be questioned that if the Titles to the remaining sites are to be found at all, they may probably be among the Papers of the office of the Lighthouse Engineer of the 12th District, if not already on file in the Office of the Board. The following is an accumulation of the Papers and Maps to which reference has been made. This first is a copy of retained

Copy of the Warranty Deed for the purchase from Lester P. Baldwin and Sophronia S. Baldwin of the land upon which the light house is built at Yaquina Point accompanied by a plat of the ground bearing date the twenty second day of April in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred and seventy one. The original of this Deed was forwarded to the Board by my predecessor, Major Henry M Robert, enclosed in letter of May 4th, 1871. The second is a copy of a “Map of plat of Cape Foulweather Light House Reservation” duty certified to by WH Odell, Surveyor General of Oregon to have been examined and approved by him, at Eugene City, April 20th, 1872. In reply to the communication from the Board, dated November 13, 1873, assisting information relative to sites of the character referred to in the opinion of the Honorable the Attorney General under date of the 4th of the same month reference being had to submarine sites, or those located on

navigable waters. I beg leave to state that there are no such stations in this District at present, and no appropriations have been made for any of the line character.

Office of the Light House Engineer Thirteenth District Portland, Oregon, January 13, 1874

SIR: The following Report of Engineer Operations in the Thirteenth Light House District during the month of December, is respectfully submitted for the information of the Board. Yaquina Point. In compliance with instructions of the Board, directing the District Officers to report as the expediency of discontinuing the Light at this Station, they left Portland on the 4th of the this month for the purpose of visiting the locality and making an inspection. The extremely cold weather and severe snow storm experienced on the way, and the impossibility of cropping the Coast Ranger of Mountains without great risk and many delays, induced them to return without accomplishing the object. Cape Foulweather. It was the intention of the Officers after visiting Yaquina Point to proceed to this Station in order to make an inspection; the causes above stated compelled them to return.