earning capacity of the land. State holdings, especially those in Oregon, are small because State policies resulted in the early disposal of school land.
Land ownership and administration—Lower Columbia
Description or ownership Acres
Area...
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322 REPORT OF THE CHIEF OF" ENGINEERS, U. S. ARMY.
ISTo work except of a preliminary character was done, and no results
obtained.
Amount expended during year ending June 30, 1890, was $4,68.7.76.
During the year 1,148.5 feet of...
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googly intake at the head of Gordon Rapid ;" "the black-mouthed whirlpool waiting like a wild cat at the foot of Dalles des Morts"—how many times had I seen all these in fancy! And at last the time came when those pictures were to be made...
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U.S. DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
National Marine Fisheries Service
Columbia Fisheries Program Office 811 N.E. Oregon Street
P.O. Box 4332, Portland, Oregon 97208
April 12, 1974
Major...
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The population by the census of 1880, of counties which furnished the above corrected amount of freight, is 66,000.
The principal settlements are in the regions between the Blue Mountains and the rivers Snake, Columbia, and Umatilla; and next...
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Photographs
documenting the activities of the New England Fish Company; The New England Fish Company (NEFCO) was founded in 1868 when eleven
wholesale fish dealers met in Boston, Massachusetts, for the purpose of
systematically...
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This collection consists of reports, programs, pamphlets, and brochures published by the Columbia Basin Irrigation League.; The Columbia Basin Irrigation League was formed at Pasco, WA, in 1922. The organization was created to promote the Columbia...
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Run-off data, for major streams—Central Washington
River
Approximate location
Records available 1
Drainage area (square miles)
Average annual
run-off 19:11-40
(acre-feet)
Columbia Trail, British Columbia 2 1913-42 34, 000 50,...
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SEA TRAFFIC FROM PORTLAND. Wheat centals 2, 889, 022
Flour barrels 579,745
Oats centals. 314,546
Mill-feed sacks 51, 989
Barley centals 32, 311
Flag-seed sacks 169,454
Wool pounds 14, 397, 989
Other produce tons 216, 588...
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Agriculture
Ten million acres of the middle Columbia Basin are in farm ownerships. This acreage approaches the amount of land in farms within central Washington and greatly exceeds that in all other subdivisions.
A considerable part of the...
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SEA TRAFFIC FROM PORTLAND. Wheat centals 2, 889, 022
Flour barrels 579,745
Oats centals. 314,546
Mill-feed sacks 51, 989
Barley centals 32, 311
Flag-seed sacks 169,454
Wool pounds 14, 397, 989
Other produce tons 216, 588...
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change materially during the present flood in the Columbia, no accurate estimate can be made of its cost at this time.
By the end of March the bay behind the dike had shoaled materially, the low-water line making out so as to cover the single...
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ities. At a final conference we decided to heed the warning about not attempting to carry any drinkables openly into the United States. Stowing what little there was left where not the most lynx-eyed or ferret-nosed Customs Officer could ever get...
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Lapwai, situated on Lapwai Creek, three miles above its junction with the Clearwater ; the latter, which is but a mountain stream, is only navigable for steamboats as high up as that point, and then only for a few months during a very favorable...
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Square miles.
Vermont 10, 212
Massachusetts 7, 800
Connecticut 4, 750
Rhode Island 1, 306
Total 68,348
New York 47, 000
Pennsylvania 46, 000
New Jersey 8, 320
Delaware 2, 120
Total. 103, 440
Maryland 11, 124...
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2852 KEPOKT OF THE CHI^F OF ENGINEERS, U. S. AEMY.
is a matter of very easy engineering attainment, and I think can, ue
obtained at very reasonable expense. ' !
A study of the...
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Memorandum: To the President, Draft, CF Luce, 1/30/67, page 1
1967-01-30
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Document: United States Department of the Interior news release, "Colorado River Storage Project Becomes Fourth Bureau of Reclamation Project to Exceed Total Investment of $300 Million," January 4, 1963, page 2
1963-01-04
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only existing developments on the main stem of the Snake River.
Irrigation.—Including land irrigated by diversion from Malad River, which is fed by springs a short distance back from the Snake, the total area served from the main stem by...
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CALIFORNIA COMMENTS
too indefinite at this time to warrant crystallizing these future facilities through premature action.
In this regard, our analyses of large-scale sea-water conversion possibilities in the vicinity of Imperial Dam have...
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2844 REPORT OF Tills CHIEF OF ENGINEERS, U. S. ARMY.
ids is one-lialf mile above this* point and 2| miles below the falls of the
Willamette at Oregon City.
The most important manufacturing interests that will be...
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practicable to introduce it, if economy in construction be thereby promoted. A favorable circumstance in this connection is the apparent absence, over a considerable length at the proposed work, of the sea worm, which in some other sections of the...
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No. 4.-Table of lengths, widths, and depths of cuts by United States dredger, together with quantities of material removed from bars in the Willamette and
Columbia Rivers, during the fiscal years of 1872, 1873, 1874, and 1875.
FISCAL YEAR...
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Document: A possible route to transport water from Columiba River to Colorado River, July? 1966 (themofax), page 3
1966-07-01
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too indefinite at this time to warrant crystallizing these future facilities through premature action.
In this regard, our analyses of large-scale sea-water conversion possibilities in the vicinity of Imperial Dam have...
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