authorized Columbia Basin project is $341,900,000, at 1940 prices. Water users have contracted to repay an average of $85 per irrigable acre, or a total of $87,465,000. The balance of the cost allocated to irrigation, $254,435,000, will be carried...
|
Water resources from the Columbia River Basin are intensely used for domestic, agricultural, industrial and hydroelectric generation needs. Water availability in the Pacific Northwest is influenced by several ocean–atmosphere modes of climate...
2017-02-22
|
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...
|
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...
2006-06-16
|
9fa
CONGRESSIONAL RECORD— APPENDIX
Czechs and Slovaks. Brought up in the school of adversity and inspired by the leadership of many true patriots, they vowed to fight for the attainment of political independence during the war years from 1914 to...
2008-09-01
|
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...
|
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...
|
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...
|
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...
|
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...
|
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,...
|
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...
|
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...
2006-06-16
|
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...
2004-08-11
|
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...
|
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...
|
To preserve record of an unusually low stage which occurred last summer, gauge readings were resumed in August at the regular stations. Examinations, including leveling from gauges to benches, were made in October at the stations Corvallis,...
|
RESULTS OF THE WORK ON RIVER IMPROVEMENT.
Before any work on the river was done the worst places were Big Eddy Rapid at low stages and the Middle Block House Rapid at higher stages of water. It is believed that no steamer had been able to ascend...
|
Papers and photographs relating to the
family of Henry L. Corbett and to Hamilton F. Corbett.; The Corbett family first came to Portland, Oregon in 1851, where Henry
Winslow Corbett (1827-1903) established himself in the merchandising and...
|
The reduced chart, on a scale of 1: 40,000, and the tracing of it, were drawn by Assistant Engineer R. A. Habersham.
The surveys of Sand Island and Point Adams were made by Assistant Engineer ,T. A. Gillespie, using the stadia for the...
|
COLORADO RIVER STORAGE PROJECT 21 of the Upper Colorado River Basin compact. The costs of any participating projects thus authorized shall be amortized in accordance with the Federal reclamation law and this bill. Section 4 provides that revenues...
2009-12-01
|
Report:United States Department of Interior, Stewart L. Udall, Secretary, Bureau of Reclamation, Floyd E. Dominy, "Pacific Southwest Water Plan", Views and Recommendations of Affected States and Federal Agencies on August 1963 Report, Response...
1964-01-01
|
Great Northern Railway Relocation- Removing old railroad spans over Kettle River, near Boyds. View of "Paul Bunyan" coming down Kettle River gorge, upstream from the new county and railroad bridge crossings.
1942-06-08
2024-11-25 |
Construction in progress on the Entiat hatchery on the Entiat River.
1940-09-19
2024-11-25 |
very difficult to work. Operations were, however, continued until the latter part of November, by which time 50 yards, the greater part of rock No. 18, had been removed. The water being still very high, the contractor asked authority to suspend...
|