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Title page 189
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. 317.267 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 Mining The Clark Fork-Clearwater subdivision ranks highest among the subdivisions as a producer of minerals. In 1939 its total combined production of copper, zinc, silver, lead, and gold approximated 370,000 tons with a value of about $84,000,000. Almost three-fourths of all mining employment in the entire Columbia River Basin is in this subdivision, where over 47,000 employed workers are associated directly or indirectly with that industry. Mineral deposits are well distributed over the...
Identifier http://oregondigital.org/u?/wwdl,1677

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