Record Details
page 14
Oregon Digital
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Identifier | ORU_WTXT_021p http://oregondigital.org/u?/wwdl,143 |
| Title | page 14 |
| Relation | The Columbia River Highway |
| Date | 2004-06-17 |
| 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. 269,880 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 | experimenting with convict honor camps in building roads in Southern Oregon. S. Benson, a wealthy timberman, of Portland, donated $10,000 to be used at one of these camps in the construction of a road around the foot of Shell Rock Mountain in Hood River County which had been regarded as an impassable barrier to a wagon road. The work done by the convicts on this section called attention anew to the need of a Columbia river road. In 1913 the building of the Columbia Highway on its present... |
