Record Details
page 5
Oregon Digital
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Identifier | ORU_WTXT_022e http://oregondigital.org/u?/wwdl,157 |
| Title | page 5 |
| Relation | Columbia River Power and the Northwest |
| Date | 2004-06-23 |
| 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 originals using Silverfast AI 6.0 on UMAX Powerlook III flatbed scanner. Scanned images saved as 16 bit grayscale tiffs. 62,687 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 | EXPLANATION In the act creating the Bonneville Power Administration of the United States Department of the Interior, Congress instructed the Administrator to build a power transmission system "to encourage the widest possible use of all electric energy that can be generated" and, in selling that energy at wholesale, at all times to "give preference and priority to public bodies and cooperatives," and to prevent monopolization by limited groups. The widespread interest in the Columbia River... |
