Record Details
pages 124-125
Oregon Digital
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Identifier | ORU_WTXT_025bk http://oregondigital.org/u?/wwdl,277 |
| Title | pages 124-125 |
| Relation | The Columbia Unveiled |
| Date | 2004-07-12 |
| 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. 127,934 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 | mountain sides have a fashion of sending rocks down on the track. It is necessary for the watchman to visit, and inspect, Calamity Curve just before the arrival of each train; and if any obstruction is on the track too large for him to remove he must place torpedoes on the rails to stop the train. As I repassed the watchman's shanty I met the watchman himself, Mr. August Berlin, who urged me to camp in his cabin overnight, as he intended to go to Golden that evening for provisions, but would... |
