Record Details
page 3225
Oregon Digital
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Title | page 3225 |
| 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. 201.819 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 | As the winter of 1898-99 was unusually cold, navigation was interrupted by ice more than is ordinarily the case, but the canal and locks were kept open and free of ice as long as boats could navigate the river. A new butterfly valve was placed in the main culvert at the lower gate, south side, in December, 1898, to replace the disabled valve, the removal of which latter was reported in the last Annual Report (p. 2983). The wedge blocks at the bearings of all valves in the main culverts... |
| Identifier | http://oregondigital.org/u?/wwdl,552 |
