Record Details
page 276
Oregon Digital
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Title | page 276 |
| 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. 326.856 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 | made. Flood-protection measures are largely unnecessary. Irrigation.—Development of irrigation in the John Day Basin was started near Prairie City about 1860. Existing projects were reported to be capable of serving 47,814 acres in 1940, of which 43,736 acres were irrigated in the previous year. All of these lands, which lie for the most part near the streams in the narrow valleys of the river and its tributaries, have been developed by private interests. Inexpensive diversion works serve... |
| Identifier | http://oregondigital.org/u?/wwdl,1765 |
