Record Details
page 20
Oregon Digital
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Identifier | ORU_WTXT_021v http://oregondigital.org/u?/wwdl,149 |
| Title | page 20 |
| 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. 215,158 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 | variation of rainfall of unusual degree is found on this highway. At Astoria, nearly 100 inches per year is the average ; at Portland, 42 inches; while at Cascade Locks the precipitation is 77 in.; and 60 miles farther east it is 15 in. per year. In Hood River County the gorge of the Columbia widens out again above the Cascades, producing some of the grandest and most rugged scenery to be encountered in the world. At one point 5 miles west of Hood River City it was found that the most... |
