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pages 318-319

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Identifier ORU_WTXT_025fd http://oregondigital.org/u?/wwdl,403
Title pages 318-319
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.
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Description and which make the farmer independent of the rainfall, and his crop a certainty. At the Boundary the average annual rainfall is 30 inches, and there is a continual decrease until at the mouth of Snake River there is but 9 inches. This small rainfall not only makes irrigation necessary but has its effect upon the forest growth, and while there is considerable timber on the hillsides at the Canadian line, by the time Box Canon is reached all native growth has ceased, except such kinds as are...

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