Salt Lake Herald | 1901-02-10 | Page 3 | Captain Wilde on the Philippines

CAPTAIN WILDE ON THE TIlE PHILIPPINES San Francisco Frncisco Feb 9 Captain George Francis Faxon Wilde WIde recently commander command r of the te battleship batt Oregon In Asiatic waters who has been de detached detached Inched fr m sea se duty dut is here on op his way to Washington The Oregon Is Isnow Isnow isnow now in condition and will wl probably start for this city about May la laL 1 L Captain Wilde said in an inter interview intervIew interview view It I is my personal opinion that the Ule best In the for thc iVio proposed naval station and dry dock d would be Iloilo on the island of Min Mis Mindanao danao dana There is a long protecting is island island island land immediately in front of Iloilo and there are two passages both boUt of which are narrow narrow and could be easily made absolutely impregnable The Th naval board boar however has ha chosen bay which is a p harbor with witha wih a fortified island nearly midway of the entrance It I is sixty miles mies from rom Manila Manna by water and will wi be but forty miles by rail rai when the necessary road Is built bui There Th ere Is no settlement there larger than a mere mere village viage fA As for the te naval naval needs of the Phil Philippines Fhi Philippines I Ish should say sy that at we e ought to toye have ye several 50 tn tho hips a great get many of em for coast coat and inter island service ser The whole coast co st must wrong be d The charts c are all al