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Identifier ORU_WTXT_022m http://oregondigital.org/u?/wwdl,165
Title page 13
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. 89,423 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 ORDERLY DEVELOPMENT OF THE COLUMBIA RIVER HAS BEGUN 1938 14Bonneville Dam completed by the Corps of Engineers of the U. S. Army. Freight traffic on the river begins to mount. By 1939, the tonnage of commodities passing through Bonneville lock was more than 3½ times the amount carried on the river at that point in 1929 14301,000 against 80,000 tons. 1939 14Preliminary applications received for most of the power that will be generated at Bonneville Dam. Bonneville power being sold to Two...

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