Record Details
page 2
Oregon Digital
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Identifier | ORU_WTXT_021d http://oregondigital.org/u?/wwdl,131 |
| Title | page 2 |
| Relation | The Columbia River Highway |
| Date | 2004-06-21 |
| 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 original document using Silverfast AI 6.0 on UMAX Powerlook III flatbed scanner. Scanned image saved as 16 bit grayscale tiff. 181,974 bytes 8 bit - Gray Gamma 2.2 - grayscale Omnipage 14.0 used to OCR 8 bit greyscale tiff and generate text files for full text access. 16 bit greyscsale tiff edited in Photoshop 6.0: cropped, rotated, reduced in size, levels adjusted for contrast, bit depth reduced to 8 and JPEG created. |
| Description | of "Better Roads," Samuel Hill can be fairly given the credit of the pioneer conception. of the plan and of, by constant agitation and generous expenditure of his private funds, enlisting others in the enterprise which has culminated in magnificent success. During the summer of 1912, with a party of men whom he desired to enthuse with the project, Mr. Hill traveled the route of the now magnificent highway on foot, there being no road over which a vehicle could travel. Not satisfied with... |
