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page 985

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Identifier ORU_WTXT_027j http://oregondigital.org/u?/wwdl,525
Title page 985
Relation Report of The Chief of Engineers 1872
Date 2004-08-26
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 control of all the boats on the river, who were unwilling to make any bid for building the dams, I returned the boat to its owner and gave up all idea of doing anything that season except snagging. The result of the scraping at Matheney's was such as to give a good channel to boats carrying 75 tons of freight, which, before the scraping, could not get over up stream empty without the aid of lines, cor carry more than 25 tons going down. It also rendered the use of wing-dams at this point...

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