Record Details
page 33
Oregon Digital
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Identifier | ORU_WTXT_014a http://oregondigital.org/u?/wwdl,97 |
| Title | page 33 |
| Relation | The Great Training Jetty at the Mouth of the Columbia River, Oregon |
| Date | 2004-03-02 |
| Rights | This item is in the public domain. Acknowledgement of the University of Oregon Libraries as a source is requested. |
| Type | page |
| Format | Scanned from black and white photocopies using Dosadi Acquire Version 2.57 on Ricoh IS450se document feed scanner. Scanned images saved as grayscale and as 2 tone black and white multi-page tiffs. 302,982 bytes 8 bit - Gray Gamma 2.2 - grayscale Omnipage 14 used to OCR black and white multi-page tiffs and generate text files for full text access. Grayscale multi-page tiffs split with libtif tiffsplit script. Individual tiffs edited in Photoshop 6.0 : cropped, rotated, reduced in size, and JPEGs created |
| Description | THE GREAT TRAINING JETTY AT THE MOUTH OF THE COLUMBIA RIVER, OREGON. The successful completion of the Columbia River jetty and the permanent improvement which it has made in the entrance channel is another tribute to the genius of Captain Eads, the author of this method of harbor improvement. What he did for the entrances to the Mississippi his brother engineers have now accomplished at the mouth of the Columbia River. The theory of the training jetty is based upon the fact that the velocity... |
