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Title page 882
Relation 1368
Date 2004-01-10 to 2004-01-12
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Description bad rocks, (chiefly boulders,) whose total measurement will not exceed 150 cubic yards. Rock Creek rapids, I think, will not require the removal of more than 500 cubic yards of rock. To remove these obstructions blasting will have to be resorted to. I would recommend that the same means he adopted here as were contemplated for the removal of Blossom Rock in San Francisco harbor, viz: that a platform be constructed over each and every rock to be removed; that drilling by hand or machinery be...
Identifier http://oregondigital.org/u?/wwdl,1192

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