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Identifier ORU_WTXT_022o http://oregondigital.org/u?/wwdl,167
Title page 15
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. 105,835 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 CONGRESS ESTABLISHED THE BONNEVILLE POWER ADMINISTRATION AS A UNIT OF THE FEDERAL PROGRAM FOR THE COLUMBIA RIVER: "The form of administration herein established for the Bonneville Project is intended to be provisional pending the establishment of a permanent administration for Bonneville and other projects in the Columbia River Basin." (Public, No. 329, 75th Congress, 1937.) Congress emphasized that Columbia River power shall be distributed for the benefit of the general public and has...

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