AUTHOR’S NOTE: Presidential Executive Order #148, in January 1899, had set aside 320 acres of land near Russian Orthodox Church property in the village of Kenai for the creation of an agricultural experiment station. The superintendent of this new station was H.P. Nielsen, under the supervision of Sitka’s C.C. Georgeson, special agent in charge of all such stations in Alaska.

When Charles Christian Georgeson, a former professor at Kansas State Agricultural College, prepared to get Kenai’s agricultural experiment station up and running in 1899, he began by hiring KSAC graduate Hans Peter Nielsen as his Kenai Station superintendent. Then he set out to provide Nielsen with the tools and the laborers he would need to succeed.

Georgeson arranged for Nielsen to have two oxen and equipment for

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