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Note on album leaf: West cofferdam, March 31, 1935. Length 3,000 ft., ht. 115 ft., over 17,000 tons steel piling, constructed in ninety days.<br><br>PH Coll 239.14
2024-11-06
Note on album leaf: Evacuating behind West cofferdam. August, 1935

PH Coll 239.17
2024-11-06
In spite of the enormous amount of tedious and exacting work they performed, as well as the utter dependence of all operations on the lines and elevations established by them, the field engineers and survey parties received relatively little...
2024-11-06
Two months later driving of the piling along the west bank of the river for the cofferdam was proceeding rapidly. Note the excavation being done with buggies having a capacity of 30 cubic yards, and drawn buy 75 horsepower tractors, which dump...
2024-11-06
This scene is typical of the "pot holes" area southwest of Moses Lake, where many square miles of fine, shifting sand dunes were left as the downwearing of the Drumheller Channels drained the glacial waters from the Quincy Basin. Present plans...
2024-11-06
of the future. The third involves development of a total load 30 to 40 years hence by separate consideration of the principal components. Projection of Past Rate of Load Growth Total power sales of public utilities in the States of Washington,...

Archaeological investigations can reveal persistent traditions of ethnic groups. Hawaiians were employed in the fur trade of the Columbia River from 1810 through 1850. The Hudson's Bay Company employed them at Ft. Vancouver, Washington from 1825...
1993-04-19 (iso8601)
The specter of climate change looms large over Oregon. Although hydroclimatologic models predict a warmer Oregon, the total volume of precipitation may not change significantly. However, the character (rain vs. snow) and spatial and temporal...
2011-05-24 (iso8601)
JEWELL ANN. PREC. 71.29 IN. YALE ANN. PREC. 94.47 IN. SALEM ANN. PREC. 37.17 IN. CASCADIA ANN. PREC. 63.55 IN. LOWER COLUMBIA PRECIPITATION AND TEMPERATURE DATA SELECTED STATIONS
Image caption: DATA FROM : WEATHER BUREAU, U....

reimbursable funds permissible under current standards developed by the War Department for achieving benefits of the value estimated. The estimate, however, does not include any consideration of benefits to recreation and to fish and wildlife....

Five distinct lithologic units compose the Tertiary rocks in the Tillamook Head - Necanicum Junction area of the northern Oregon Coast Range. They are: the late Eocene to early Miocene Oswald West mudstones, the middle Miocene Angora Peak...
1975-07-10 (iso8601)
air. I was taking no chances of a last-minute bolt from the still restive Imshallah, however, and skirted the sandy bank so closely that twice I found myself mixed up in the remains of the past season's salmon-traps. Passing a big sawmill, I...
2004-08-24
to a luminous blur behind the pall of the sand-filled air, and the wind, which headed us every now and then, about neutralized the impulse of the acceleraing current. There was a forty-miles-an-hour sandstorm blowing when we beached the boat under...
2004-08-17
"Ye're right," he assented, after ejecting the inevitable squirt of tobacco and parking the residuary quid out of the way of his tongue as a squirrel stows a nut; "ye're right ; five minutes fer eloosidashun an' r'h'rsal." As usual, Ike...
2004-08-16
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