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Plans, Costs, and Benefits

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Title Plans, Costs, and Benefits
Relation Columbia River
Date 2005-02-22 to 2005-04-11
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Format Scanned from originals using Silverfast AI 6.0 on UMAX Powerlook III flatbed scanner. Scanned images saved as 16 bit grayscale tiffs. 115.859 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 Plans, Costs, and Benefits "Direct and indirect benefits of the undertakings would be large and far reaching. The lands developed by irrigation, drainage, and flood control works would support a farm population of approximately 300,000. Their wants and those of people immediately serving them would require the employment of individuals providing for a population two or three times as great as that on the farms. It seems likely that livelihood opportunities for workers supporting at...
Identifier http://oregondigital.org/u?/wwdl,1529

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