Record Details
pages 40-41
Oregon Digital
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Identifier | ORU_WTXT_025u http://oregondigital.org/u?/wwdl,251 |
| Title | pages 40-41 |
| Relation | The Columbia Unveiled |
| Date | 2004-07-06 |
| 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. 131,529 bytes 8 bit - Gray Gamma 2.2 - grayscale Omnipage 14 used to OCR 8 bit grayscale tiffs and generate text files for full text access. 16 bit grayscale tiffs edited in Photoshop 6.0: cropped, rotated, reduced in size, levels adjusted from 0 - 1.00 - 255 to 0 - 1.00 - 249, bit depth reduced to 8 and JPEGs created. |
| Description | waters of the Upper Kootenay River with Upper Columbia Lake. In consideration of this the Syndicate was to receive free grants of 320 acres of land for each $2,500 expended for the actual construction of the canal. The total land subsidy was to amount to 30,000 acres; and in addition as a settlement and reclamation undertaking 45,000 additional acres were reserved for the Syndicate, chiefly in what is now the Creston District. The canal was completed in the summer of 1888, with an excavated... |
