Record Details
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Identifier | ORU_WTXT_027h http://oregondigital.org/u?/wwdl,523 |
Title | page 983 |
Relation | Report of The Chief of Engineers 1872 |
Date | 2004-08-25 |
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. 234,013 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 CS: cropped, rotated, reduced in size, levels adjusted from 0 - 1.00 - 255 to 0 - 1.00 - 225, bit depth reduced to 8 and JPEGs created. |
Description | cubic yards of material, and could be completed this fall if' it were not for the bars at and near the mouth of the river, which will probably require attention. This cut is now 3,250 feet long, and there are yet 1,150 feet of cut remaining to extend it to the 17-foot curve above the bar. BAR, AT THE MOUTH OF THE WILLAMETTE RIVER—In September and October last the dredger and snag-puller were sent to this point, a steamer and two ships having grounded there, and the depth at extreme low... |