Record Details
page 873
Oregon Digital
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Title | page 873 |
| 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. 280.874 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 | From the pilot of the Columbia, river below the mouth of the Willamette, I learn that at the lowest stage of water and tide there is 1.7 feet, and at high tide 19 feet. Hence it would be desirable to deepen the channel to at least 18 feet of water, as was originally intended. To dredge a channel of that depth at Swan Island bar would require the removal of 50,000 additional cubic yards of materials at a cost of $31,200. The amount to be removed at the mouth of the river has not yet been... |
| Identifier | http://oregondigital.org/u?/wwdl,1182 |
