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Identifier ORU_WTXT_026fn http://oregondigital.org/u?/wwdl,775
Title pages 270-image
Relation Down The Columbia
Date 2004-08-16
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 determine the nature and depth of bedrock, which seems to be the only question left unsettled which affects the feasibility of the project. The Northwestern states are all in a league for securing the reclamation of this vast area, and there is no doubt that, if bedrock conditions prove to be favourable, that in the near future the money will be raised to construct this great project, which will reclaim an area equal to the combined irrigation projects undertaken by the U. S. Government...

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