America in Spitsbergen - v. 2 Author:Nathan Haskell Dole Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: vinced that it would decidedly improve the company's position without impairing the value of the property. 3. THE SCHRODER CLAIM Andreas Schroder's claim s... more »eemed to be developing on rather dangerous lines. Under date of January 18, 1910, he had written to Ayer and Longyear through his Sakfrer, or attorney, Emil Melle of Troms0, in imperative terms: "As owner and first occupant of the coal-lands on east side of Green Harbour in Icefjord, Spitzbergen, I beg to inform you that I am going to sell to a Mining Company my rights in Green Harbour, and if you should fail as soon as possible to make satisfactory arrangements with me your houses and things by me or the new owner will be moved away as soon as we get there next (the coming1) summer. "Your houses have been built during 1908 and '09 inside the fence erected and established by me in 1900. My occupation and fence includes the whole east side of the fjord, from three hundred meters east of the northward Naes on east side of the fjord and in along the fjord passed the harbour, length eleven thousand meters and breadth eight thousand meters. "In 1900 I occupied from sea up to the useless high rocks and put a fence: wire on iron posts at an accurate distance between posts of fifty meters, and all posts with inscription. The fence (see sketch) was formed, and we took the land between sea and highest mountains from the Nses eleven kilometers, in the fjord, passed the harbour; after that I occupied in 1904 up to a line eight kilometers from the fjord and length eleven kilo- I Km looo tnttir A Copy Of This Map Was Shown To Each Trespasser And Copies Were Also Displayed In Several Places. Scale: 4 Miles To I Inch meters as before, lots of posts with inscription. All the land round the only harbour on the eas...« less