APPENDIX K K,
ANNUAL REPORT OF MAJOR JOHN M. WILSON, CORPS OF ENGINEERS, FOR PART OF FISCAL YEAR ENDING JUNE 30, 1879.
UNITED STATES ENGINEER OFFICE,
Portland, Oreg., October 22, 1878. GENERAL : I have the honor to transmit herewith...
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Tentative Disposition
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Problem or Area of Concern
7. The wall-eyed pike is getting quite abundant in Roosevelt Lake, particularly in the arm of the Spokane River. Some are in Banks Lake and have...
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The habitat for the basin's valuable wildlife resources has been, and will continue to be altered by increasingly intensive use of the region by man. Additional developments in prospect will result in wildlife losses in some instances but in other...
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Mining
The Clark Fork-Clearwater subdivision ranks highest among the subdivisions as a producer of minerals. In 1939 its total combined production of copper, zinc, silver, lead, and gold approximated 370,000 tons with a value of about...
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416 EEPORT OF THE.CHIEF OF ENGINEERS, U. S. ARMY.
{ Amount (estimated) required for completion of existing project___$1,745,500.00
I Amount that can beprofitably expended in fiscal yearendiag June 30,
{...
2006-06-16
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Photographs and publications of the Puget Sound Bridge and Dredging Company and
its successor, the Lockheed Shipbuilding and Construction Company, documenting shipbuilding and construction projects
in the Pacific Northwest, including...
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A black and white image showing construction of the Interstate Bridge across the Columbia in Portland. Men and construction equipment are visible in the image. Wooden scaffolding and utility poles are also visible. This is Vancouver - Portland...
2004-03-24
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arousing interest in the use of electrolytic manganese, made at the rate of a ton daily at the Boulder City, Nev., pilot plant, shows the value of this procedure. Demand for electrolytic manganese lagged until lots as large as carloads were given...
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tween the cribs, where the current is strongest, running at the rate of 3 miles per hour, failed to discover any cutting or other indication of injury to the work.
Al- the then prevailing stage, 20 feet above low-water, the dividing line between...
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for half a century after Lewis and Clark visited its mountains and valleys, disturbed only by the trapper and hunter. But the great westward migration in the mid-1800's brought the farmer to plow the unfurrowed earth and the miner to excavate...
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determine the nature and depth of bedrock, which seems to be the only question left unsettled which affects the feasibility of the project. The Northwestern states are all in a league for securing the reclamation of this vast area, and there is no...
2004-08-16
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General map of Columbia River Watershed including Washington, Montana, and British Columbia
1905-04-17
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SCALE OF EMPLOYEE S
CENTRAL WASHINGTON
PRINCIPAL MINES
BY NUMBER OF EMPLOYEES
1940
metropolitan centers of the Pacific Northwest. Pasco, Wash., at the extreme southern margin is the present head of navigation on the Columbia River. From...
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cubic yards stone and 292 cords brush in facines were placed during the season.
January, 1886.-Minor repairs made to tug Lincoln, care and protection of plant.
February, 18S6.-Care and protection of plant.
March, 18S6.-Examinations made of...
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Image Caption: A WILDERNESS OF LOGS ON THE LOWER COLUMBIA --page break-- From St. Helens to the ocean the Columbia River passes through the Coast Range, a low range of mountains having comparatively gentle slopes heavily forested with great...
2004-07-22
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ing to run Surprise Rapids; and about his body being buried at Middle River near where it was found.
I was frequently told about the terrible Death Rapids and the many accidents that had occurred there to the early voyagers. How, but recently, a...
2004-07-07
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users. The periods used in the calculations above are 40 years in the case of irrigation water users, and 50 years in the case of power users. It has been noted that, on the 1940 cost basis, approximately $100,000,000 would be added to the sum...
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Congressional
papers of Mike Lowry, King County councilman, Washington State legislator, U.S.
congressman, and Washington State governor; Michael E. Lowry, commonly known as Mike, served in local, state, and
national government during...
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swift water on the Bend. Of course, you're going to hit once in a while, spite of all you can do; but, if you're lucky, you'll probably kiss off without staving in a side. If you're not—well, if you're not lucky, you have no business fooling...
2004-08-04
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United States and crosses the Columbia at Northport.
just above the railway bridge at Castlegar is the beginning of swift water. At this point the Government maintains a ferry boat—the only one on the British Columbia section of the Columbia...
2004-07-14
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It would take volumes to describe more in detail than I have done, everything of interest from the River's feeble birth at Canal Flat to its ship-plowed expanse at its termination. Engrossed as I was in navigating my boat amongst breakers,...
2004-07-26
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Columbia Basin Project, Irrigation Division, Block 1, Pasco Pump Unit, Specs. 1230. Head of main lateral, at outlet of discharge pipe from Columbia River pumping plant, showing 8 ft. Parshall flume as measuring device. Discharge is approximately...
1950-04-28
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Part (r), WW-2 Columbia River (upper), Wash.
APPROPRIATIONS. (See p. 1619.)
COMMERCE. Description of, 93, 3382.
1893, small signs of decrease, 93, 3382.
ENGINEERS.
Chief of Engineers. R., 89, 364; 90, 329; 91, 406; 92, 381; 93,...
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[unrelated material omitted]
DEFENSES OF THE COLUMBIA.
Defenses at the mouth of the Columbia River, Oregon, and Washington Territory, in charge of Maj. G. L. Gillespie, Corps of Engineers, until July 27, 1881; since that date in charge of...
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This report collects the documents generated as part of a two year effort to catalogue the variety of water quality and quantity data that has been collected in the Columbia Basin Trust region of British Columbia. Through the cataloguing effort, a...
2014-01-01
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