US Navy founding coals bunker stations on American Samoa and the Sandwich islands according to the Dutch magazine Marineblad dated 1892-1893 no. 6

An item referred to the Army and Naval Journal reporting that the US Navy intended to found a coal bunker station at Pago Paga, Samoa Islands [American Samoa]. The negotiations for buying the necessary area for building the necessary buildings and a 270 feet long quay were still going on. It was expected that a similar station would be founded on the Sandwich Islands.