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Title page 77
Relation Columbia River
Date 2005-02-22 to 2005-04-11
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Description protection for life and property provided against floods. About 3,876,000 acres of new land would be made available by irrigation and by drainage and diking projects. Lands benefited by supplemental irrigation water (1,523,300 acres) and by drainage projects ($34,000 acres) aggregate 2,057,300 acres. Assuming an average increase in productivity of 20 percent on lands of the latter two categories, they would be roughly equivalent to 411,460 acres of new land. This figure, it should be...
Identifier http://oregondigital.org/u?/wwdl,1534

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