Record Details
page 58
Oregon Digital
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Identifier | ORU_WTXT_017a http://oregondigital.org/u?/wwdl,105 |
| Title | page 58 |
| Relation | Longest Jetty in the World |
| 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. 540,517 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 Longest Jetty in the World. At the mouth of the Columbia River the United States government is building what will be the longest jetty ever constructed. It will also enjoy the distinction of being one of the very few public works whose ultimate total cost falls far short of the original estimates. The Columbia is by far the largest river west of the Rockies, being considerably over 1,000 miles in length and for 100 miles from its mouth navigable for the largest ocean vessels. At its... |
