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these rocks has been a great benefit; the original depth of water over them was about 1 1/2 feet, and the improvement has carried this depth to 5 feet at lowest navigable stage. There are two other rocks standing in the channel which have less...

ritories, and that the Northwest Company of Merchants from Canada finding the factory of this people inconvenient to them do hereby intend to erect a factory in this place for the Commerce of the Country around." Intelligent students of American...
2004-07-04
vide storage water for irrigation, improve navigation, and abate pollution. 57. Previous discussion will have made clear that continued economic growth of the Pacific Northwest, in the long run, will depend upon a continuing rational development...

6 Columbia River Treaty with Canada- BPA Turns North Across the 49th Parallel, the boundary between the United States and Canada, flows the Columbia River—the largest single source of hydroelectric power on the North American...

under the Clean Water Act, due to sedimentation, turbidity, flow alteration and high temperatures.27 Many of these streams have lost their capability to support salmon and other cold-water fish.28 The Environmental Protection Agency has found...

APPENDIX Q Q. IMPROVEMENT OF RIVERS AND HARBORS IN OREGON, AND IN WASHINGTON TERRITORY—CONSTRUCTION OF CASCADES CANAL, COLUMBIA RIVER—IMPROVEMENT OF LOWER CLEARWATER RIVER, IDAHO. REPORT OF CAPTAIN CHARLES F. POWELL, CORPS OF ENGINEERS,...

CHAPTER XXIX
FINAL REVIEW AND CONCLUSIONS In exploiting the scenic features of the Columbia River an impression is given to many unfamiliar with it that it abounds with great canons. That is not true, for not even excepting the passageway...
2004-07-26
POINT ADAMS AND CLATSOP SPIT, AND SAND ISLAND. The annual survey of the shore line at these points was made by direction of the department from the appropriation for' improving the mouth of the Columbia River," and the details will be found in...

counts from the game preserve on Sauvie Island indicate the popularity of the area. In 1964, over 10,000 hunter-days were recorded in this one area. FISHERY RESOURCES One of the outstanding uses of the Columbia River is the sport and...

ESTIMATED COST FOR MAKING 100 MILES 24 FEET LOW-WATER NAVIGATION ON THE COLUMBIA AND WILLAMETTE RIVERS FROM THE SEA TO PORTLAND, OREGON. [One hundred and five miles 8 feet low-water navigation in the Columbia River to the Dalles, 500 miles 4...

FACING PAGE Where we landed above Surprise Rapids 97 Where we tied up at "Eight mile" 97 "Shooting" the first bit of lining at Surprise Rapids 122 The camp where the roar of the rapids deafened us . 122 Where Steinhof was drowned . 122 Where Andy...
2004-08-03
CHAPTER IV
THE ORIGIN AND MEANDERINGS OF THE COLUMBIA RIVER Our boat-building activities being at an end, and now having some leisure, it behooves us (I assume that the reader will now, if he has not already, join me in spirit if he...
2004-07-06
Q Q I. IMPROVEMENT OF COLUMBIA AND WILLAMETTE RIVERS BELOW PORTLAND. OREGON. This work was turned over to me by Capt. Charles P. Powell, Corps of Engineers, March 31, 1886. It covers the Columbia River from its mouth to the mouth of the...

THROUGH THE COLUMBIA RIVER GORGE By AUTO By RANDALL R. HOWARD Author of: The Port of the Colombia HISTORY was in the making on that September day two years ago when a small party of business men and county officials motored out twenty-two miles...
2004-03-02
small-scale undertakings for the irrigation of special crops. Power.—About two-thirds of the power plants established in the lower basin are hydroelectric. Most of the plants are located within the Willamette Basin. The two larger plants are...

Main 5061--PHONES--A 1755 Factory Motor Car Repair CO. Twenty-First and Kearney Sts., Portland, Oregon One of the largest Exclusive motor car repair shops on the coast Specialties Cylinders Reground Ball Bearings Reground Complete Stock...

Of this amount, $120,000 has been expended to date, $107,444.71 on the Columbia River at John Day's, Squally Hook, Owyhee, Devil's Bend, Umatilla, and Homly Rapids, and $12,555.29 at Pine Tree Rapids, on the Snake River. The present project...

its ratification by President Kennedy in March 1961. Canada, however, delayed Parliamentary approval because of a difference between the Canadian National Government and the Province of British Columbia over disposition of Canada's share of the...

Woods, Rufus. "The 23-years' Battle for Grand Coulee Dam." The Wenatchee Daily World, 1944. Chapter 3 — Bonneville Project Act—A "Provisional" Bureau is Born. Bauer, Malcolm. "The Columbia Gorge—Scenery vs. Industry." The Oregonian (Nov....

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Prologue Chapter 1 — Evolution of the Nation's Electric Power Systems Avery, Mary W. Washington —A History of the Evergreen State. Seattle: U. of Washington Press, 1965. Bessey, Roy F. Pacific Northwest Regional...

Roll on, Columbia Woody Guthrie (Yes) Roll on, Columbia, roll on, Roll on, Columbia, roll on. Your power is turning the darkness to dawn Roll on, Columbia, roll on. Green Douglas fir where the waters cut through, Down her steep...

Irrigation.—Plans for irrigation in the Weiser River Basin involve provision of supplemental water to the 14,830 acres now inadequately supplied and a full supply to 24,760 acres of new land. The potential new-land developments are associated...

offer excellent prospects for power development. Plants at these sites, with total installed capacity of 140,000 kilowatts, are the only potential developments in the entire upper Snake Basin. The authorized multiple-purpose Palisades Dam and...

An examination of the general chart of the coast shows a narrow sand spit running north for 25 miles, from the general headland of which Cape Disappointment is a part, to the entrance of Shoalwater Bay, and separating this bay from the ocean. On...

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