page V-52

5C9 [5C2] Comment: The implication is that all irrigation return water is bad. In many cases return flows are beneficial as in the lower Crooked River where practically no summer flows existed before construction of upstream storage. Flows are...

Government Camp on Columbia River

Looking upstream. Government Camp in lower right corner, above which is the west cofferdam and excavation conveyor running to Rattlesnake Canyon. To the left is machine shop area of Mason City, catwalk crossing Columbia River, and east end of...

1935-07-22
2024-11-05

Map of main canal, gravity plan (1923)

1 map ; negative, 13 x 35 cm. Before the arrival to Washington State of the first irrigation projects handled by the U.S. Reclamation Service, the Northern Pacific Railroad and other railway companies funded private irrigation projects in...

2024-11-05

Columbia Basin Irrigation Project : all the facts to August, 1930

2024-11-05

Annual cycles of organic matter and phytoplankton attributes in the Columbia and...

1997-02-25 (iso8601)

Rising backwater at Oropothem Creek, ca. 1941

Caption included with image: "Rising backwater of the Columbia river behind Grand Coulee Dam is seen entering Oropothem creek. View looking north and upriver. The Gerome ferry, seen moored in the creek's outlet, will continue in service as rising...

page 224

KEY MAP IRRIGATED AREAS NON-IRRIGATED AREAS ADAPTED FROM MAPS BY BUREAU OF AGRICULTURAL ECONOMICS, U.S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE CENTRAL WASHINGTON CROP LAND tral Washington ranks second among the subdivisions of the Columbia River...

Forestry program for Oregon

This document sets forth the Board of Forestry's strategic vision for Oregon's forests for the next eight years

2024-11-05
2005-04-07
2005-03-10

Assembly Building Nearing Completion

To expedite the assembling of new turbine and generators and to store government equipment, the Bureau of Reclamation is constructing a large assembly building on the west shore, upstream from the dam. The structure ultimately will be 357 feet...

1942-12-22
2024-11-05

Defenses of the Columbia

[unrelated material omitted] DEFENSES OF THE COLUMBIA. Defenses at the mouth of the Columbia River, Oregon, and Washington Territory, in charge of Capt. C. F. Powell, Corps of Engineers.—The defenses consist of Fort Stevens, an inclosed...

2006-02-13

Guide to the Columbia River Meat Company Records 1913-1917

Includes articles of incorporation, minutes of stockholders' meetings, stock record, and dividend record. The firm was a cannery. The incorporators were Milton Smith, C. R. Hallberg, and W. H. Cooper.; Biographical/Historical note; The Columbia...

page 2653

The following refer to the district of Willamette for year ending May 31, 1882, and are furnished by Mr. F. N. Shurtliff, collector : Value of imports $58,001 Value of exports 6, 614,243 Coastwise arrivals, number, 161 ; registered tonnage...

pages 424-425

almost invariably lodges in the flesh of some unfortunate. Some of the salmon are, of course, eaten fresh, others are salted down, and still others are smoked, but most of them are preserved by packing in tin cans at packing-houses called...

2004-07-26

pages 188-189

wide and a half-inch thick, with two edges rounded, like moulding. Making the bottom boards come flush with the sides the rounded strips were nailed to the bottom, lapping over the sides a half-inch. The bottom itself was subject to little injury,...

2004-07-14

pages 94-95

dashed to pieces against the rocks. They had not the prudence to take out either their blankets or small quantity of provisions, which were of course all lost. Here then the poor fellows found themselves deprived of all the necessaries of life,...

2004-07-07

page 1019

Abstract of proposals for furnishing the United States with a tug-boat, when required, during the year 1877, opened by Maj. John M. Wilson, Corps of Engineers, February 8, 1877. No. Names and residence of bidders. Furnishing boat when...

page III-58

Source PI-21 PI-21, 77 PI-60 PI-112 PI-53 Tentative Disposition F F F F F Problem or Area of Concern 5. Sand dredged from the lower Columbia should not be used entirely for beach construction along the river. A solid beach from the...

Dam Site Looking East

Columbia River - Looking east at dam site.

1934-07-07
2024-11-05

Exploration and Survey of Columbia River, Washington

1892-01-05

Governmental policies and the preservation and display of Native American cultural...

Prior to advent of Europeans in the Pacific Northwest, the Middle Columbia River Basin was the location of highly developed native cultures. For centuries it was the center of very important native trade networks that extended over western North...

1979-07-25 (iso8601)

page 255

MIDDLE COLUMBIA Mt. Adams Columbia Mt. Jefferson Three Sisters Bend Prineville House Heaven Plateau Walla Walla Pendelton Crooked River

page 380

380 REPOET OF THE CHIEF OF ENGINEERS, U. S. ARMY. and spur dikes, and shore protection works to deepen the water over Dry Stocking Bar, at the mouth of Hoquarton Slough, and to remove snags and overhanging trees from Hoquarton Slough....

2006-06-16

pages image-271

Image captions: NIGHT WAS FALLING AS WE HEADED INTO BOX CANYON (above)
THE COLUMBIA ABOVE BOX CANYON (below) --page break-- The rock-littered channel of Moneghan's or Buckley's Rapids was easily threaded by the launch, and Equilibrium or...

2004-08-16

Sketch Map Columbia River Region

SKETCH MAP COLUMBIA RIVER REGION BRITISH COLUMBIA WASHINGTON TERR. MONTANA PACIFIC OCEAN IDAHO WYOMING OREGON CALIFORNIA NEVADA UTAH VANCOUVER'S ISLAND Sent to the Chief of Engineers with Annual Report of 1885...

Gauging waters of the Columbia River and principal tributaries

[unrelated material omitted] 13. Gauging waters of the Columbia River and principal tributaries.— A self-registering gauge was operated at Astoria during July, August, and September, and record of reports of pilots made, to test the value...

2006-02-27