and finally, but by no means least of them, the Columbia River in the Northwest . . . And from there, my friends, in each of the four quarters of the United States, there will exist forever a National yardstick to prevent extortion against the...
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CHAPTER VIII
III. RUNNING THE BEND Boat Encampment to Revelstoke WE were now close to the historic Boat Encampment, where at last our course would join with that followed by the early voyageurs and explorers. No point in the whole length of...
2004-08-10
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An interdisciplinary study, USGS Columbia River Contaminants and Habitat Characterization (ConHab) project, is underway to investigate transport pathways, chemical fate and effects of polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs) and endocrine disrupting...
2011-05-25 (iso8601)
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was the square stern, and that was of less moment running down river than if we had been working up. It did seem just a bit like asking for trouble, tackling the Columbia in a boat built entirely for lake use; but Captain Armstrong's approval of...
2004-08-11
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On April 11, 1892, Light Ship 50 was towed to a position five miles west of the Columbia River’s mouth where she became the west coast's first active lightship. In November, 1889 a serious storm broke her anchorage, and the next day her crew...
2024-11-24
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This dissertation focuses on the predator-prey relationship between two species of avian predators, Caspian terns (Hydroprogne caspia) and double-crested cormorants (Phalacrocorax auritus), and one of their important prey types, juvenile salmonids...
2010-05-25T19:56:14Z (iso8601)
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river at Portland being 19 feet above low-water on March 16. This freshet rapidly subsided, and on May 5 reached a level of 5 feet above low-Water. The Columbia again commenced rising, the Willamette above the falls still falling, while below the...
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Astoria and ninety-seven above the mouth of the Columbia, or from the open sea. The upper end of Columbia City Bar (proper) is less than two miles below the former. Examinations and soundings of the two bars were made in August and October, 1874....
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Collection includes miscellaneous
accounts, receipts, etc. regardting the Columbia River Transportation Co. Columbia Transportation Company merged with the Seattle
Steam and Navigation Company in 1891, creating the Columbia River and...
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of Indians, who paddled in canoes to the ocean; today It Is a vast commercial thoroughfare, along whose banks railroad trains rush, and thriving towns now take the place of Indian villages. "Where rolls the Oregon." How came this name? A hundred...
2004-03-02
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Windermere Lake. There is a bank there and I planned to remain over one day to get the money needed, and some necessary provisions.
The next morning after my arrival I walked to Invermere, crossing the Kootenay Central Railway on a bridge over a...
2004-07-06
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agan and Columbia rivers to Celilo without mishap, intending to put machinery in and take goods to Keith River and Samalkameen mines; but the finding of Salmon River and Oro Fino mines caused him to run her up Snake River to Lewiston. This...
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agan and Columbia rivers to Celilo without mishap, intending to put machinery in and take goods to Keith River and Samalkameen mines; but the finding of Salmon River and Oro Fino mines caused him to run her up Snake River to Lewiston. This...
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CHAPTER X
Power Production SUMMARY Divides between watersheds constitute no barrier to power system development, and power generated in the Columbia River Basin is transported to many areas beyond its actual boundaries. Consideration of... |
1911, 30,723 t., valued at $1,020,109; farm and mill machinery, grain, fruit, and general merchandise; 12, 1191.
CONTRACTS.
Upper Columbia River:
1872. J. B. Montgomery, removal of r., 73, 107, 1121, 1122. Contract extended, 73, 1121....
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large-scale irrigation works were constructed and successful methods for dry-land wheat farming were developed on the semiarid lands. During a period of more than average rainfall in the early 1900's both irrigated and dry lands were settled...
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CHAPTER II
UP HORSE THIEF CREEK WHEN I started north from Los Angeles toward the end of August Chester, held up for the moment by business, was hoping to be able to shake free so as to arrive on the upper Columbia by the time I had...
2004-08-04
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Recent years have seen expansion in other types of manufacturing. A new plant to manufacture alcohol and livestock feed from surplus wheat has been established at Heppner, Oreg., and a large manufacturer has recently announced plans for a biscuit...
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centre at the junction of the Columbia and the Snake should not be lost sight of even to-day.
The lighter-hued water of the Snake was pretty well churned into the flood of the Columbia at the end of a mile, leaving a faint suggestion of...
2004-08-23
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poraneous upthrust and erosion alone, but must be due to the fact that the sentinel cliffs now standing erect were harder than other places, were subject only to the wearing effect of the water of the Columbia, and not situated so as to be...
2004-07-26
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generally reliable and void of conscious effort to be dramatic.
Besides this, no one who has written about the Columbia, except David Thompson, ever traveled its full length. Other early voyagers such as Cox, Franchere, Ross, and others, made...
2004-07-07
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irrigated orchard 60 miles into the wooded mountains, which rise precipitously about 7,000 feet above its head.
Several developed sites are available to winter sports enthusiasts. One, nationally known for its high ski jump, is at Leavenworth in...
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G. J. Bayle was a timber cruiser and logger for the Consolidated Mining and Smelting Company Limited (CMS), later Cominco, in Trail, British Columbia. In the 1920s as a result of complaints about harm caused to timber, crops, and livestock from...
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them to Ellis Morigeau, J. P. Forde, and T. W. Saunders.
At the outset of my trip I had no definite intention of writing a description of the Columbia River. The idea was one of growth that developed as I proceeded. I found that to residents of...
2004-06-30
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Bird predation of juvenile salmonids and/or bird predation control are reviewed for 14 of the 18
mainstem dams on the Columbia and Snake Rivers, but there was little information for some of these dams.
California gulls, ring-billed gulls, Caspian...
2003-02 (iso8601)
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