Record Details
Middle Columbia
Oregon Digital
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Title | Middle Columbia |
| 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. 110.738 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 | Middle Columbia "Fuller use of water resources of the middle basin will entail a very large extension in the acreage of irrigated farm land, a great increase in power development, and further improvement of the Columbia for navigation. "Approximately 275,000 acres were irrigated in 1910, almost exclusively with waters of tributaries to the Columbia. Developments . . . would extend this area by about 690,000 acres. A large part of the new irrigation development and most of the additional... |
| Identifier | http://oregondigital.org/u?/wwdl,1738 |
