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Identifier ORU_WTXT_022k http://oregondigital.org/u?/wwdl,163
Title page 11
Relation Columbia River Power and the Northwest
Date 2004-06-24
Rights This item is in the public domain. Acknowledgement of the University of Oregon Libraries as a source is requested.
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Format Scanned from originals using Silverfast AI 6.0 on UMAX Powerlook III flatbed scanner. Scanned images saved as 16 bit grayscale tiffs. 82,942 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 3. The Columbia River is the greatest single undeveloped source of water power in the United States. With its tributaries it can produce power equal to that purchased in 1929 in the entire United States by All the homes. All the farms. All the stores. All the factories. Thus, today, 3,500,000 people in the Northwest have awaiting development the same amount of power purchased in 1929 from the utility industry by 123,000,000 Americans. 4. Without the fullest use of the Columbia River, the...

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