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Title page 263
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. 248.14 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 trenched Columbia some lands are irrigated, but this northern section is characterized particularly by extensive dry-land wheat farming on the broad interstream reaches of the plateaus. The southern section includes the broken lands of the Blue Mountains and the less extensive plateaus of the upper Deschutes Basin. Scattered irrigated tracts in the upper John Day and Crooked River Basins and more extensive irrigated areas in the upper Deschutes Basin are included, but this southerly section...
Identifier http://oregondigital.org/u?/wwdl,1752

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