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Identifier ORU_WTXT_022w http://oregondigital.org/u?/wwdl,175
Title page 23
Relation Columbia River Power and the Northwest
Date 2004-06-28
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. 82,570 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 PREFERRED BUYERS 14PUBLIC AND PEOPLE'S UTILITY DISTRICTS Public and people's utility districts are community or county districts 14created by vote of the people. Their purpose: to sell power in their localities at lowest possible rates. In Oregon such districts are subject to the same State and local property taxes as privately owned public utilities. At present the Washington PUD's are not subject to property taxes but do pay gross revenue taxes. In recent years the movement to set up such...

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