Record Details
page 257
Oregon Digital
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Title | page 257 |
| 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. 300.638 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 | The slight precipitation received on the plateaus, the great depth to ground water, and the fact that streams with continuous flow throughout the summer lie in deep canyons have made the provision of adequate water supplies a major problem over large parts of the middle basin. When settlement of the plateaus was first attempted, the difficulty and cost of obtaining water from ground-water sources was so great that many settlers preferred to haul water from distant points where it was more... |
| Identifier | http://oregondigital.org/u?/wwdl,1746 |
