This collection
contains portions of Carleton E. Watkins’s New Boudoir Series, circa
1882. Includes views of Seattle, Port Blakely, Port Gamble, Port Ludlow Mill,
Port Madison, and Victoria; Carleton E. Watkins was born November 11,...
1882-11-24
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IMPROVEMENT OF UPPER AND LOWER COLUMBIA AND WILLAMETTE, RIVERS; OF THE SNAKE,on COWLITZ, AND YAMHILL RIVERS, OREGON:, AND WASHINGTON AND OF LOWER CLEARWATER RIVER, IDAHO—CONSTRUCTION OF CASCADES CANAL, COLUMBIA...
2006-03-23
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Photographs and clippings from a Seattle shipbuilding company, primarily
concerning the construction, repair and adaptation of ships for use by the government in World War II.; Historical Note; Oscar E. Olson and Carl B. Winge first met in...
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tory, and that the improvements will permanently secure and aid in the maintenance of a sufficient depth of water to float the largest class or merchant-vessels between the mouth of the Columbia and Portland. The regimen of the Willamette is by no...
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APPENDIX UU—REPORT OF MAJOR HANDBURf. 2861
getting a channel to the sea 15 feet depth at low water. This being
attained it was followed by a demand for 18 feet and then for 20 feet.'
During these times the ruling depths over...
2006-06-16
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Label on verso: WORK PROJECTS ADMINISTRATION, M-9; STATE OF WASHINGTON; Date: 3/4/41; O.P. No. 65-2-93-146; Zone 1; County; City; Neg. C-788; Title: Columbia Basin Clearing Project....
2024-11-24
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Colorado River Association Newsletter, May, 1967, page 3
1967-05-01
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tate the development of irrigated areas and power production.
lrrigation.-The total area of new lands in prospect for irrigation in the Yakima Valley is about 131,000 acres. Its addition to the present irrigated area would bring the total land...
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irrigated from that stream in 1939. About 3,000 acres of this land lie below Willow Creek Reservoir No. 3, of 50,000 acre-feet capacity. This reservoir was built in 1910 but it has never filled. The remaining 20,200 acres of irrigated land in the...
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The collection is comprised of
notebooks, journals, photographs, posters, programs, correspondence, reports,
speeches and writings, clippings, original scores of music, and publications
documenting the academic work, research, and...
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for rehabilitation of the system. In 1936, an additional $200,000 was advanced for further construction work. The project water supply from Rock Creek and from Lost Horse Creek by feeder canal is supplemented by storage in Lake Como, capacity...
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opments of new and supplemental lands are included on the Snake above Heise and on the tributary Salt River.
The contemplated provision of supplemental water to 380,000 acres and the irrigation of 22,000 acres of new land from the main stem of...
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2842 REPORT OF THE CHIEF OF ENGINEERS, U. S. ARMY.
PROJECT FOR IMPROVEMENT OF WILLAMETTE RIVER AT ROSS ISLAND.
OREGON.
United States Engineer Office,
Portland, Oregon, September 30,1891.
General : In compliance...
2006-06-16
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used largely for production of forage crops. It consists of many scattered tracts served by small, privately owned, gravity diversions. Late-season shortages occur on some of the smaller tributaries, but they are not critical. In general, the...
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Document: United States Department of the Interior, Bureau of Reclamation, Memorandum Report, Lower Colorado River Perfection, Region 3, A.B. West, Regional Director, Boulder City, Nevada, March 1963, page 18
1963-03-01
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Grande Ronde River Present Development
Irrigation of a gross area of about 76,000 acres of land and hydroelectric installations with an aggregate capacity of 2,480 kilowatts constitute the water resource developments in the Grande Ronde River...
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the other instrument, so that the position of the float was accurately located upon entering and leaving the course. In one or two instances a third point in the middle of the course was also determined by angles from both instruments.
Time was...
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mental water to 12,370 acres of land now irrigated and the development of 9,060 acres of new land.
The Challis project on the main stream in the upper Salmon River basin would supplement the current water supply on 2,850 acres and bring under...
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of the lack of irrigation water during exceptionally dry years. This condition can be remedied in part by constructing a 12,000-acre-foot reservoir on the main stream. This reservoir would be in a position to deliver stored water to 12,000 acres...
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Records of the Ontario, Oregon, branch of
a San Francisco-based company that owned large tracts of land in northeastern
Oregon beginning in 1876. Includes correspondence, legal documents, reports,
statistics, and financial records...
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P P 5.
CONSTRUCTION OF CANAL AROUND THE CASCADES OF THE COLUMBIA RIVER, OREGON.
The plan of this construction is to give lockage around the main rapid and an open river navigation through the minor rapids below, for stages, at the foot...
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rock is a hard basalt, and is not columnar like ordinary basaltic rock. That which is on the bluff banks of the river is nearly all columnar, but that miller water looks as though it had been subjected to the action of intense heat, melted and...
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1390 KEPORT OF THE CHIEF OF ENGINEERS, U. S. ARMY.
2. Preliminary examination of North Fork of Coquille River,
Oreg., for a distance of 17 miles up the stream from the mouth.—
Report dated November 28, 1910, with map, is printed in House...
2006-06-16
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The occurrence, distribution, and transport of pesticides in surface water of the Yakima River Basin were assessed using data collected during 1999–2000 as part of the U.S. Geological Survey National Water-Quality Assessment (NAWQA) Program....
2024-11-24
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