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Title page 20
Relation Columbia River
Date 2005-02-22 to 2005-04-11
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. 301.449 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 to the vast areas of mountain wilderness and sagebrush desert which are virtually uninhabited. Much the greater part of the basin has a sparse population; concentrations are limited to scattered areas. The average population density of 10 persons per square mile, therefore, does not provide a true picture of population distribution. The population in the entire basin in 1940 was about half that of the State of Massachusetts. Most of the people in the basin are young; those under 30 years of...
Identifier http://oregondigital.org/u?/wwdl,1481

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