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occurred, and those have almost invariably resulted from attempts to sail across it against a strong ebb-tide, either when the winds have not been propitious, or have died away before accomplishing the passage. It is proposed to occasionally send,...
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deposits near Molalla, Clackamas County, and Cottage Grove, Lane County.
Sands of the Columbia delta and the present and ancient beaches of Oregon contain heavy minerals—magnetite, titaniferous iron, ilmenite, chromite, garnet, sircon, and...
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CHAPTER VI
THE PARADOX OF THE COLUMBIA AND KOOTENAY RIVERS We are now pretty well primed, in a general way, with facts in relation to the Columbia River, and about all that remains to be known is the exact nature of the country it...
2004-07-06
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Basin are required before major, additional developments can be planned.
lrrigation.—Little quantitative information is available about irrigation potentialities in the Kootenai Basin. The bulk of the land susceptible to irrigation is located...
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in lower elevations are farmed to some extent. Especially noteworthy examples are the Long Valley of the north fork of the Payette River, the Weiser River Valley, and the Lemhi and Pahsimeroi Valleys of the upper Salmon River basin. The Stanley...
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67 p. Includes sections of Appendix QQ: 1886 annual report of Major W. A. Jones, and selections from Appendix RR, reports of Capt. Charles F. Powell, Corps of Engineers, detailing construction, maps and other works related to river and harbor...
1886-04-25
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lock there is 76 feet wide and 500 feet long. The controlling depth over the sills of the lock is 24.2 feet at low water, though a depth of 26 feet is available about 95 percent of the time. The pool above the dam provides a deep-water channel to...
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67 p. Includes sections of Appendix QQ: 1886 annual report of Major W. A. Jones, and selections from Appendix RR, reports of Capt. Charles F. Powell, Corps of Engineers, detailing construction, maps and other works related to river and harbor...
1886-04-25
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The Columbia River Highway A State Road That Is a Model of Artistic Engineering LEADING out of the city of Portland, and extending along the Columbia River, through scenery of unusual beauty and grandeur, the State of Oregon has constructed a...
2004-03-02
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fastest growing urban areas, a place of some sophistication and a noted collection of water lawyers. Lewiston, at the Idaho-Washington border, is the Basin's furthest inland port, 465 miles from the Pacific Ocean. The Dalles, located where the...
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(Reprinted from American Forestry, August, 1916) The Columbia Highway in Oregon BY HENRY L. BOWLBY Assoc. M. Am. Soc. C. E. Formerly State Highway Engineer of Oregon THE nation-wide campaign for better roads has been responsible for the...
2004-06-17
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to try to get them past the dam. The managers relocated the upper Columbia salmon stocks into other tributaries and a hatchery at Leavenworth, one of the first of many.54
The Lower Columbia River Fishery Development Program, funded by the...
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to try to get them past the dam. The managers relocated the upper Columbia salmon stocks into other tributaries and a hatchery at Leavenworth, one of the first of many.54
The Lower Columbia River Fishery Development Program, funded by the...
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APPENDIX OO.
IMPROVEMENT OF RIVERS AND HARBORS IN OREGON AND IN WASHINGTON TERRITORY—IMPROVEMENT OF LOWER CLEARWATER RIVER, IDAHO—CONSTRUCTION OF CASCADE CANAL, COLUMBIA RIVER.
REPORT OF CAPTAIN CHARLES F....
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experimenting with convict honor camps in building roads in Southern Oregon. S. Benson, a wealthy timberman, of Portland, donated $10,000 to be used at one of these camps in the construction of a road around the foot of Shell Rock Mountain in Hood...
2004-06-17
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flanked on the west by the Cascade Mountains and merging into the Palouse Hills on the east are common to both areas. In the middle Columbia Basin, however, the interior plateaus stand at higher elevations and are more sharply dissected, the...
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day's run for the uncertain purpose of trying them. At The Dalles City there is a reputed fishing place, in the Columbia, just off a point below the city. I spent several hours in a vain attempt to hook something at the point. After reaching...
2004-07-26
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THE GREAT TRAINING JETTY AT THE MOUTH OF THE COLUMBIA RIVER, OREGON. The successful completion of the Columbia River jetty and the permanent improvement which it has made in the entrance channel is another tribute to the genius of Captain Eads,...
2004-03-02
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dale, Oreg., about 15 miles east of the Willamette. The greater part of its 520 square miles of drainage area is mountainous and heavily timbered, and only limited areas in the steeply rolling hill country along the lower reaches of the river have...
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sustain yields, however, are rapidly gaining prevalence throughout the basin. In the van of sound forest management are operations on the nearly 50,000,000 acres of forest in Federal ownership.
32. Thirty-three metallic and nonmetallic...
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APPENDIX Q Q.
IMPROVEMENT OF UPPER AND LOWER COLUMBIA AND WILLAMETTE RIVERS; OF THE SNAKE, COWLITZ, AND YAMHILL RIVERS, OREGON AND WASHINGTON, AND OF LOWER CLEARWATER RIVER, IDAHO—CONSTRUCTION OF CASCADES CANAL, COLUMBIA RIVER.
REPORT OF...
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the word, "it's the Pacific I'll be robbing of a pint of Rocky Mountain dew; while if I dip to the right it's the Atlantic that'll have to settle back a notch. And if I had a string long enough, and a wing strong enough, to cast my can over there...
2004-08-03
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Morse, K.S.,and R.S. Anderson. 1988. Tourism in the Columbia River Gorge: A Profile of Visitors, Accommodations, and Economic Impacts. Washington Sea Grant Marine Advisory Services, 3716 Brooklyn Ave N.E., Seattle, WA. 91 pp.
National Park...
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commercial value is attributable to the Columbia. Preliminary estimates by the Bureau of Commercial Fisheries indicate gross sales by fishermen in 1964 at about $6,000,000.
In 1964, 689 gill net licenses were issued to Columbia River fishermen...
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Image Caption: THE COLUMBIA RIVER FROM DONALD TO SURPRISE RAPIDS --page break-- tain between the trough of the Columbia and Blackwater and Bluewater Creeks is an isolated one, and evidently once united the Selkirks to the Rockies and is now a...
2004-07-07
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