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pages 32-33

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Identifier ORU_WTXT_025q http://oregondigital.org/u?/wwdl,247
Title pages 32-33
Relation The Columbia Unveiled
Date 2004-07-06
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Description parts for the boat it was then necessary to assemble them. The little stream at Canal Flat is popularly known as the actual head of the Columbia River. The nearest place where there was water deep enough to float a boat was just above highway bridge "5-39," and 1,400 feet below where the stream starts. Here it has a width of about 30 feet, and a depth of about a foot, and there was sufficient flat ground on the west bank for a little "shipyard." Building a couple of small trestles, or horses,...

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