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REDUCED MAP
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Survey of
LOWER WILLAMETTE AND COLUMBIA RIVERS
1882 -1883.
Showing Constructions for permanent Improvement up to June 30, 1883.
References.
a,b,c, fascine dams built 1882-3
d,e, revetments 1880-2-3
f, dam...
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A change of regimen of the river at the falls by radical improvement below may make a little different arrangement of locks desirable; the one offered is sufficient for a fairly close estimate of cost. The project provides for full completion of...
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The aggregate of the snag-boat's work during the year is—On the Upper Willamette :
Number of snags removed 1.021
Number of trees cut from the banks 374
And on the Lower Willamette :
Number of snags removed 100
Number of trees cut...
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It is practicable to make a training wall for the ebb waters by substituting for the stone dike a double or triple row of piles, and filling the spaces with fascines and stone. Such a temporary and experimental dike is, however, not recommended....
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Pacific Coast on the project for a canal around the Cascades of the Columbia River, Oregon, for which an appropriation of $90,000 was made by the river and harbor act of August 14, 1876, appear to be judicious and are concurred in by me. I have,...
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Abstract of proposals for excavating rock from the Upper Columbia and Snake Rivers, opened by Major John M. Wilson, Corps of Engineers, November 10, 1876.
Names and residences of bidders.
Numbers.
Squally Hook Rapid, Upper Columbia River,...
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July 1, 1876, amount available $8, 038 25
Amount appropriated by act approved August 14, 1876 20, 000 00
$28, 038 25
July 1, 1877, amount expended during fiscal year 13, 796 47
July 1, 1877, outstanding liabilities 2, 157 45
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2005-09-07
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it became a painful duty to announce to the Chief of Engineers. He was true to his manhood and his profession ; and, as then truly written
He was a most able and reliable civil assistant, always prompt and energetic, perfectly fearless, inured...
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(marked by four buoys—two black and two red) is about 2,500 feet in length, and will, from its nature, always require more or less work. The new one will only be 1,200 feet long, with a width of 150 feet, and can be more readily kept open, if...
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should hold in plans for basin-wide development of all resources, an economic evaluation of the basin's fisheries is essential. This will require the collection and analysis of statistics of the commercial, sport, and Indian fisheries in the...
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old building and grading, soiling and seeding the grounds, and constr. 3 lock-tender's dwellings, 05, 2460, 2461.
SURVEYS.
Cascades and Dalles of the Columbia, 1874, under direction of Maj. Michler, by R. A. Habersham, 75, 125; ii, 787: 76,...
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owing to inaccessibility. The road problem is therefore a vital factor in inducing settlement of this great territory and until Messrs. Benson, Yeon, and Lancaster diverted attention to this form of development many sections were without...
2004-06-17
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MEXICALI VALLEY
The history of irrigation in Mexicali Valley is contemporaneous with that of the Imperial Valley. The right to divert up to one-half the water flowing in the Alamo Canal was reserved to irrigate Mexican lands in return for the...
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Contains letter and petition referring to the rights of the Pima Indians
1911-08-09
2004-12-03 |
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A history of irrigation in Arizona circa 1886.
1886-04-25
2004-12-01 |
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Document: Report to Utah from U.S. Senator Frank E. Moss, "Water for Utah and the West - Where Will We Get It?", May, 1964, page 2
1964-05-01
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Mr. Lopez Zamora stated that the drilling of such wells should be regulated immediately, with Mexico establishing its rights over the underground waters, because it was the first country to tap those sources, even though the currents flow...
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MEXICAN WATER TREATY 7
The treaty permits of increasing the cultivated area to the total of the area that can be cultivated economically, that is, to 200,000 net hectares (494,200 acres). [Emphasis, and calculation in parentheses, added.]
As...
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There is an immense body of literature relating to the Navajo Indians, most of it produced by others than historians. I have found no satisfactory account of the expansion of the Navajo frontier outward, especially toward the lower San Juan River...
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