Record Details
page 49
Oregon Digital
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Title | page 49 |
| 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. 266.936 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 |
CHAPTER II The Columbia River Basin Among North American rivers the Columbia occupies a position of prominence. Although it is exceeded in volume of water discharged by the Mississippi, McKenzie, and St. Lawrence Rivers, the Columbia is the largest present producer and the greatest potential source of hydroelectric power on the continent. Its Waters are used to irrigate an area second in size only to that supplied from the Missouri River. It is navigable far above its mouth ; large... |
| Identifier | http://oregondigital.org/u?/wwdl,1508 |
