Record Details

page 73

Oregon Digital

Field Value
Title page 73
Relation 1368
Date 2004-01-10 to 2004-01-12
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. 257.677 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 the city of Portland, the work was not commenced until September 10, 1867. From that (late to the end of November, when the work was stopped by high water, 18,184 cubic yards of material were removed, at a cost of $10,484 48, being an average of 57.6 cents per cubic yard. By this excavation a channel was made 100 feet wide, 900 feet long, and 15 feet deep at extreme low water. The average depth of the excavation was 4.18 feet. Work was resumed on the 20th February, and continued to the 11th...
Identifier http://oregondigital.org/u?/wwdl,1177

© Western Waters Digital Library - GWLA member projects - Designed by the J. Willard Marriott Library - Hosted by Oregon State University Libraries and Press