projects in the state were authorized: Minidoka in the Upper Snake Basin (1904) and the Boise Project in the Lower Basin (1906). Managing new storage water rights with existing surface water rights created new complications, and in the 1920s...
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Correspondence, articles, business records, scrapbooks, newspaper clippings, sketches, photos, and other papers, relating chiefly to Limbert's exploration of the Idaho wilderness, his promotion of Idaho as a tourist destination, and studies of...
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the portion of the river below Portland, and deposited on the bars there, or discharged into the Columbia.
In the upper section of the river very little sediment is deposited, owing to the great velocity of the current.
HEAD OF NAVIGATION....
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The Willamette River flows north between the Cascade Mountains and Coast Range of western Oregon within a 29,728-km² basin. The fish community in the geologically young basin consists of 36 native species, but introductions of non-native fishes...
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The most precarious, and perhaps the most spectacular phase of the construction program, was the diversion of the river. This matter of river control required an exacting performance of construction operations to conform with the cycles of river...
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SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA,
February 17, 1868.
SIR: I have the honor to submit the following report of operations on the Columbia river:
In accordance with special instructions from you I went to Celils, Oregon, on September 1, 1867; there...
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Photographs of Guy V. Graham & Libby McNeill Libby; Guy Graham was born on September 23, 1893. He was first hired by
Libby, McNeill & Libby in 1913 as a cannery helper. During his career with
Libby, McNeill & Libby he was a draughtsman,...
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and Weiser Rivers to the edge of the mountains. Lesser acreages are found along the streams of the other agricultural valleys of the area. These soils are brown to dark-brown in color, with lighter-colored subsoils. Although in most cases the...
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from the channels. The boat was put in commission for similar service for a week in November, and also ten days in April. A shallow breach 90 feet long in the Pearcy's Slough Dam, made in June, 1883, was closed with brush work. In April a number...
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An investigation of the fishes of the Willamette River and three of its larger tributaries was made during July, August, September, and November of 1951, to ascertain the possibility of using them as bio-indices of pollution. Thirteen stations...
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APPENDIX T T—REPORT OF CAPTAIN SYMONS.
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Foster Creek Rapids at low water is a mass of rocks; 34 can be counted above
water, and there is an equal number within 3 feet of the surface.
From this down to the mouth of the...
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DATA RELATIVE TO THE CLASS OF VESSELS WHICH CROSS THE BAR AT THE MOUTH OF THE COLUMBIA RIVER, OREGON.
All foreign trading vessels are generally of iron ; American and coasting vessels generally of wood. The usual draught of the largest vessels...
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which improvements would be made for flood-control purposes.
Power.—Full development of the Grande Ronde project would involve four power plants, one each at the Grande Ronde and Catherine Creek Dams, and two in connection with the Little...
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DATA RELATIVE TO THE CLASS OF VESSELS WHICH CROSS THE BAR AT THE MOUTH OF THE COLUMBIA RIVER, OREGON.
All foreign trading vessels are generally of iron ; American and coasting vessels generally of wood. The usual draught of the largest vessels...
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Work on the Roza division was begun in 1936 and is still in progress. The ultimate acreage to be irrigated in this division is 72,000 acres, 47,000 acres of which will be served by gravity and 25,000 acres by pumping. In 1943, 9,050 acres of the...
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tance above and including the mouth of the Clearwater River. This short reach of the Snake is utilized by small powerboats, operating out of Lewiston, Idaho, at the mouth of the Clearwater River, to provide mail and supply service to a few...
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APPENDIX UU—REPORT.OF MAJOR HANDJBUEY.
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would keep the river in reasonably good boating condition during the
low-water season.
The amount of commerce on the river and the economical prosecu-
tion of the work to be. done...
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414 KEPOKT OF THE CHIEF OF ENGINEERS, U. S. ARMY.
2. Construction of canal at the Cascades, Columbia River, Oregon.__
The general scope of the improvement which it is desired to effect at
the Cascades of the Columbia Eiver includes a...
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but from 6 to 12 inches. No attempt has been made to improve these
shoals.
A light-draught vessel with crew was hired for this work last fall and
operated about two weeks...
2006-06-16
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Label on verso: DATE: June 27, 1941; OP65-293-146, Dist. 1
PHOTO BY: Morgan Fitz, Camp Kettle
COUNTY: Stevens; Neg. No. 905;
TITLE: Columbia River Reservoir Clearing Proj. CAPTION: COLVILLE RIVER OUTLET (June 23, 1941)...
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the water reaching it percolates into crevices, large and small, in and between layers of the basaltic lava, with the result that large areas are entirely devoid of streams. Of those which start southward across the plain from the mountains on the...
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Tentative Disposition
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Source
SI-25, 32, 35, 38, 43, 44, 45
46, 55, 60, 66
WI-1, 13, 33, 35, 49
PI-2, 9, 19, 21, 25, 34, 37,
47, 50
PI-57
Problem or Area of Concern C. New Programs and Enhancement Measures
1. A plan and...
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Label on verso: DATE: June 27, 1941, OP 65-2-93-146, Dist. 1; PHOTO BY: Morgan Fitz, Camp Kettle; COUNTY: Stevens; Neg. No. 903; TITLE: Columbia River Reservoir Clearing Project; CAPTION: SPOKANE RIVER VALLEY, (About May 15th) LOOKING NORTH The...
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settlement. Indeed, the more significant developments may be emerging from the surface-ground water conflicts. For example, in Musser v. Higginson, the Idaho Supreme Court ordered the state Department of Water Resources to regulate pumping by...
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Wind-laid materials blanket much the greater part of the plain. These loessal materials, largely moved into the upper Snake Basin by prevailing winds from deserts and ancient lake beds to the west, range in depth from a thin sprinkling to heavy...
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