of the surroundings and then I sank into the deep, untroubled sleep of the weary.
The next day I lined three raging rapids, keeping down the right hand shore as it presented the least difficulties.
The second rapid was different from the rest....
2004-07-12
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fitting into a metal socket set in a block nailed fast to the gunwale. I had had the neck of the "U" closed just enough so that the oar could not be raised directly out of the rowlock but had first to be drawn inward about a foot before it could...
2004-07-07
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On the axis of the dam, looking west. Center foreground shows top of Eastmix and elevation 1024 concrete placing trestle extending toward river to join west end across the river. At extreme left is beginning of upstream cross-river cofferdam....
2024-10-04
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what manner and what portion of the river the funds available should be applied. His report thereon has not been received. When received, if approved, immediate steps will he taken to prosecute the work.
By command of Brigadier General...
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Source PI-92 E
PI-71 C
PI-55 C
PI-106 E
Tentative Disposition
Problem or Area of Concern
l0. (Cont) COMMENT: The ongoing programs of the Soil Conservation Service are designed to meet the needs expressed in concerns 5 through 10....
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1936-10-20
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Moss covered tree along trail near Lower Cispus River, near Randle, Washington
1941-04-24
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Copper Creek just above mouth
It is a tributary to the East Fork of the Lewis River.
1936-10-14
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1936-10-31
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Falls and log jam in Little Wenatchee River beyond which the bluebacks, chinooks, steelheads, "silvers," etc could not migrate in 1939
1940-09-19
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1 map ; 55 x 128 cm. Contour interval 300 ft. "Sen. Ex. Doc. no. 43, 37th. Cong., 3d. Sess."<br>"Lith. of J. Bien, 24 Vesey St. N.Y." Shows topography and hydrography along the wagon road. Identifies by name winter campsite, mountain peaks...
1863-11-04
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By February of 1935 construction was well along. Note the absence of snow at this time.
1935-02-01
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Document: 87th Congress, 1st Session, House of Representatives, Report No. 1125, Public Works Appropriation Bill, 1962, September 6, 1961, page 26
1961-09-06
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2. The Wallowa County-Nez Perce Initiative
Watershed efforts first took shape in Wallowa County, the ancestral home of the Wallowa band of Nez Perce Indians (also known as the -Joseph band). Headwaters begin in the steep canyons in the...
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5 p. Selected pages of the Report of the Chief of Engineers for 1876 covering improvements of rivers in Oregon and Washington territory.
1876-11-04
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From the pilot of the Columbia, river below the mouth of the Willamette, I learn that at the lowest stage of water and tide there is 1.7 feet, and at high tide 19 feet. Hence it would be desirable to deepen the channel to at least 18 feet of...
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and the perfection of the intricate process through which it is now put at Trail has made a mine, which would otherwise have remained practically valueless, worth untold millions. The two thousand and more employes of the smelter are the main...
2004-08-11
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extends down to the lower rapid. The formation is basaltic; the island is in places covered with bowlders, but is mostly bare, and the exposed surface is cut and channeled in every direction by the constant action of the river at the high stages,...
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Table showing the rate of fall in the water in the lower Clearwater River and in the lower part
of the North Fork of the Clearwater.
[As ascertained from surveys made for the Northern Pacific Railroad Company in August and September, 1871, by...
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was a vicious side-winder, shaped like a letter "S," with overhanging cliffs playing battledore-and-shuttlecock with the river at the bends. Blackmore said he would have lined it if the water had been two feet lower; as it was now we would get...
2004-08-09
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Original ground at the proposed Colville River crossing on the relocation of primary state highway No. 22. The relocation work will involve the building of a highway bridge and removal of the irrigation pipeline.
1939-01-06
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The Samuel T. Hauser Papers consist mainly of business
correspondence and papers concerning his various mining and power company interests. Also
included is a letter he wrote to his sister in 1862 during a trip up the Missouri...
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Filling diversion block 32, looking downstream, December 23, 1937.
1937-12-23
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spection of them will exhibit more clearly than words can impart the characteristic details of the regimen of the river.
The obstacles in the nature of rocks to be blasted out and displaced from the channels, as well as the plans, but partially...
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