Record Details
page 220
Oregon Digital
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Title | page 220 |
| 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. 318.336 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 | large-scale irrigation works were constructed and successful methods for dry-land wheat farming were developed on the semiarid lands. During a period of more than average rainfall in the early 1900's both irrigated and dry lands were settled quickly. By 1940 the irrigated mountain valley sections were settled compactly and permanently. After the first rush of settlement in the western plateau sections, a series of drier years caused crop failures and subsequent decline in population. The... |
| Identifier | http://oregondigital.org/u?/wwdl,1709 |
