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Relation Report of the Chief of Engineers 1899 Part 4
Rights This item is in the public domain. Acknowledgement of the University of Oregon Libraries as a source is requested.
Format Scanned from originals using Silverfast AI 6.0 on UMAX Powerlook III flatbed scanner. Scanned images saved as 16 bit grayscale tiffs. 146.13 kb 8 bit - Gray Gamma 2.2 - greyscale 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, bit depth reduced to 8 and JPEGs created.
Description Image captions: PHOTOGRAPH NO. 1.-SHOWING CONTRACTED CHANNEL: SWIFT CURRENT, AND WALLS OF BASALT, CHARACTERISTIC OF THE COLUMBIA RIVER IN THE 9 MILES ALONG THE LINE OF THE PROPOSED BOAT RAILWAY. OREGON SHORE ON RIGHT; WASHINGTON SHORE ON LEFT.
PHOTOGRAPH NO. 2.-COLUMBIA RIVER, LOOKING UPSTREAM, FROM OREGON SHORE TOWARD WASHINGTON SHORE, IMMEDIATELY BELOW CELILO FALLS. River completely obstructed by huge clusters of basalt rocks and numerous small falls.
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