Record Details
page 7
Oregon Digital
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Identifier | ORU_WTXT_021i http://oregondigital.org/u?/wwdl,136 |
| Title | page 7 |
| Relation | The Columbia River Highway |
| Date | 2004-06-16 |
| 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. 210,550 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 | The highway for 15 miles passes over a comparatively level, rich agricultural country until the Sandy River marks the approach to the Cascade Range of mountains. The old country roads here had excessive grades to avoid which a new road was cut out of the banks of the river, necessitating excavation of a bluff 200 ft. high for more than a mile and a half. From this point the highway begins a gradual ascent for miles to the Columbia River, where at Crown Point an elevation of 700 ft. above the... |
