Record Details
pages 310-311
Oregon Digital
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Identifier | ORU_WTXT_025ez http://oregondigital.org/u?/wwdl,399 |
| Title | pages 310-311 |
| Relation | The Columbia Unveiled |
| Date | 2004-07-20 |
| 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. 90,206 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: LOOKING UP YAKIMA VALLEY --page break-- part of the orchard product. The soil is fertile, but requires irrigation, as the rainfall is small. The people of Pasco are promoting a very ambitious irrigation project which involves tapping the Pend d'Oreille River near the town of Newport, 165 miles to the northeast of Pasco, and diverting it on to the arid lands of the ancient lake bed north, east, and south of the latter place. It is claimed that the waters of the Pend d'Oreille... |
