Abstract of contracts for the improvement of the Upper Willamette River, Oregon, in force, during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1878.
Name and residence of
contractor.
Date of contract.
Subject of contract.
5,000 feet wing-dams, more...
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Image Caption: ATHALMER, LOOKING NORTH
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had become warm, and the glaciers were melting, or "working," it was at a high stage, the banks being nowhere over two feet above its surface, and many of them flooded. The water was...
2004-07-07
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lower end of the rapids without difficulty, and by 3 o'clock P. M. was at Beavermouth, and went into camp on a grassy flat, at the mouth of Quartz Creek, and near the remains of a sawmill that had burned down—the flat being littered with charred...
2004-07-12
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Caption on mount: Knappton Cannery. Columbia River, Washington
PH Coll 293.45 |
In situ salinity, turbidity and temperature were measured at
discrete depths and water samples for radioanalysis were simultaneously
collected in the Columbia River Estuary using a specially designed
instrument package.
Particulate radioactivity...
1967-05-11 (iso8601)
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Images of diversion dams in rivers
2024-11-01
2007-01-02 2007-01-02 |
Using water-permit processes to protect salmon. The states' primary responses to the Council's request that water permit processes be used to protect salmon was to enact various forms of moratoria on new water diversions.179 Idaho imposed a...
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Various methods have been developed to mitigate the effects of dams on juvenile salmon migrating to the Pacific Ocean through the Columbia River Basin. The collective results suggest that transportation may help mitigate adverse health effects of...
2007-07-24
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Pat Williams was in the U. S. House of
Representatives for Montana from 1979 to 1997. This collection consists of the
materials generated and collected by Williams' office during his eighteen years
in office. Significant subjects...
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Abstract of contracts for the improvement of the Upper Willamette River, Oregon, in force, during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1878.
Name and residence of
contractor.
Date of contract.
Subject of contract.
5,000 feet wing-dams, more...
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A few miles above the south shore axis of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers John Day Lock and Dam on the Columbia River, the newly relocated Interstate Highway 80N and the Union Pacific transcontinental main line swing across the John Day River....
1960-11-01
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Source PI-74, 77
Tentative Disposition
PI-83 E
PI-82 F
F
Problem or Area of Concern
17. Baker Bay has silted in where there used to be deep water. Wing dams to keep the channel open have shoaled the Washington shore and increased...
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construction of works to control floods not only prevents losses which would otherwise be sustained, but in many instances converts a liability into an asset.
Floods in the Columbia River system do not present the frequently recurring menace...
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Columbia River reservoir. The old town site of Marcus in the foreground, with the abandoned Great Northern Railroad bridge at the right. Water surface of the reservoir is at elevation 1252.5.
1941-07-29
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The Warner Creek Fire collection consists of documents related to the Warner Creek Fire in Willamette National Forest, Oregon in October 1991, and its aftermath. The majority of the collection is the Administrative Record presented by the U.S.F.S....
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A black-and-white photographic postcard. The printed caption at upper right reads "The Needles, Cape Horn on the Columbia River". The view is of a rock formation known as The Needles, with a waterfall flowing from the top of a cliff and into the...
2004-08-05
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Image Caption: BEGINNING OF BASALT BLUFFS BELOW WENATCHEE --page break-- Three and a half miles farther along I reached the crossing of the main line of the Great Northern Railway. At a very contracted place in the River, natural rock abutments...
2004-07-20
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Bring Those Tires
to Henry's
Columbia Tire Shop
Michelin Tires
WE Sell Them
821/2 Broadway North
Portland, Oregon
Vulcanizing
FALLS VILLA
ON
Columbia River Highway...
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and is held in readiness for future use. Although the foundation to a great extent proved to be quicksand, and the velocity of the current unusually strong, still, upon an examination of the piles, caps, and braces, it was found that the...
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2 p. Article detailing the discovery and early exploration of the Columbia River. There is also some focus on the placement and expected future greatness of Astoria.
1892-05-14
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Photo shows Kettle Falls, on the Columbia River, which are now obliterated by the backwater from Grand Coulee Dam
1935-09-18
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Rock Island Dam on the Columbia River
The middle fish ladder has not yet been constructed
1935-06-23
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