benefits. The lower the rates under this measurement, the lower are the evaluated benefits. In contrast, as public-power policy recognizes, benefits actually realized increase as rates decrease to permit the maximum number of people to enjoy the...
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Eight Tertiary sedimentary and volcanic units crop out in the thesis area. From oldest to youngest they are the: Sager Creek formation (informal); Pittsburg Bluff Formation; Northrup Creek formation (informal); Smuggler Cove formation (informal);...
1987-10-16 (iso8601)
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APPENDIX UU----REPORT OF MAJOR HANDBURY. 2829
A summary of the weather and -water-gauge records is transmitted herewith.
Hie following drawings relating to the work.are also transmitted;
Sheet 1, showing the work finished...
2006-06-16
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mometer at Kinbasket Lake, so I could not take the temperatures here; but Wood River was beyond all doubt the coldest stream I had ever dabbled a fingertip in. What the ascent to Athabaska Pass must have been may be judged from this description by...
2004-08-10
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Image Caption: MITCHELL POINT TUNNEL --page break-- sists of 200 miles of asphaltic concrete paving from Astoria to The Dalles, and 140 miles of gravel and crushed rock surfacing from The Dalles to Pendleton. The construction of some of the...
2004-07-22
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the breakers become high and tempestuous. Between the line of great breakers and the right-hand shore the water is agitated, but devoid of obstructing rocks, and the waves but moderate. My inspection convinced me that the way to run Spokane Rapids...
2004-07-19
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This anonymous handwritten volume contains several texts, including a diary of a sea voyage from Boston to San Francisco in 1852, a description of an 1863 trip on the Columbia River, and miscellaneous handwritten recipes, notes and clippings.;...
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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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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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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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General map of Columbia River Watershed including Washington, Montana, and British Columbia
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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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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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Early on, the Forest Service played an active role in protecting and managing the resources of the Gorge. In 1893, Congress created the Cascade Range Forest Reserve, later combining it with the Bull Run Forest Reserve to become what was eventually...
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