Record Details
page 200
Oregon Digital
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Identifier | ORU_WTXT_009a http://oregondigital.org/u?/wwdl,113 |
| Title | page 200 |
| Relation | Great Jetty Works at the Mouth of the Columbia River |
| 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. 378,270 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 Jetty Works at the Mouth of the Columbia River. The project under which the work of improving the mouth of the Columbia River is being carried on was adopted in 1884. It contemplates providing a channel across the Columbia River bar, having a depth of 30 feet at mean low tide. This is to be effected by concentrating the water flowing over the bar, and increasing the resultant current to such a degree as to procure the desired depth. Any work for accomplishing this end must be more... |
