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pages 78-79

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Identifier ORU_WTXT_025an http://oregondigital.org/u?/wwdl,313
Title pages 78-79
Relation The Columbia Unveiled
Date 2004-07-07
Rights This item is in the public domain. Acknowledgement of the University of Oregon Libraries as a source is requested.
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Format Scanned from originals using Silverfast AI 6.0 on UMAX Powerlook III flatbed scanner. Scanned images saved as 16 bit grayscale tiffs. 96,077 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 Image Caption: THE COLUMBIA RIVER AND SELKIRKS BELOW LAKE WINDERMERE --page break-- incline and fed to the saws within the mill. Should the logs become jammed at any time in the boom they are untangled by the use of peavies and pike poles. The boom last reached was the one used by the sawmill of the Columbia River Lumber Company at Golden. I soon came to it, a large mill having a capacity of 350,000 feet, B. M., of lumber per day. Although the River above had been 400 feet wide much...

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