Record Details
Upper Snake
Oregon Digital
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Title | Upper Snake |
| 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. 102.134 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 | Upper Snake "Waters of the Snake River are the lifeblood of this area. Wind and water have blanketed the vast lava plain which forms the valley floor with soil materials of inherent fertility. Rainfall, however, is scanty . . . To this unproductive plain, the Snake brings lifegiving water from the bordering mountains . . . "The water supply, however, is grossly inadequate to irrigate all of the arable lands. Thus the most effective possible use of a limited supply of water is the... |
| Identifier | http://oregondigital.org/u?/wwdl,1549 |
