Kodiak
                                        28 November l945

ations were carried on with the Navy Officer in Charge of 

construction at Kodiak. An agreement was reached with this 

officer that the contractor would do the trenching work for 

subterranean cable in certain sections which were access-

ible to roads. Also the contractor would furnish any equip-

ment and material which might be available and repair and 

maintain all equipment used on the project without regard to 

its ownership. (As it proved later, this latter provision 

was the only help which was given by the contractor, and 

later by the SeaBees, on the project.) An item was added 

to Contract NOY 3570 to cover the above agreement, and 

$l50,000 was furnished by ACS in Seattle to care for the 

work.

     Actually, no trenching work was ever performed by the 

contractor. Priorities for work to be performed under the 

contract were set by the commanding general of Ft. Greely 

and the commandant of the Naval Air Station. It would 

have been necessary for the CG to request that equipment 

to perform the trenching work be pulled off other Army 

projects, and, this was never done. The general decided 

that it would be possible to complete the project by other 

means.  This proved to be true; however, it threw a much 

greater burden on the ACS engineering personnel at Ft. 

Greely than would have otherwise been the case,

     An officer on the Post staff suggested that if funds 

were available it would be possible to hire workers in the 

village of Kodiak. The Seattle office sub-allotted funds

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