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Identifier ORU_WTXT_022aa http://oregondigital.org/u?/wwdl,179
Title page 27
Relation Columbia River Power and the Northwest
Description This page also provides a chart using statistics from the 1939 Report of Rural Electrification Administration for Oregon and Washington. PREFERRED BUYERS 14RURAL COOPERATIVES Farmers may organize into rural cooperatives and buy Columbia River power. Such cooperatives may borrow money to build lines from the RURAL ELECTRIFICATION ADMINISTRATION OF THE UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. This program was started in 1935 to help farmers get electricity. As a result, in five years farm electrification has moved forward in the United States from 10 farms per 100 having electric service to 25 farms per 100. This program was...
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. 106,600 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.

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