Record Details
page 282
Oregon Digital
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Title | page 282 |
| 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. 273.443 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 | Power.—Commercial power is developed on White Salmon River at the Northwestern Electric Co.'s Conduit plant, which consists of a concrete dam diverting water into pen stocks leading to a powerhouse a short distance downstream. Constructed in 1912, the plant has a nameplate rating of 9,600 kilowatts, but the generator has since been rewound and now carries a load of 15,000 kilowatts. The gross head is 179 feet and the plant uses all of the normal low-water flow of the stream. The town of... |
| Identifier | http://oregondigital.org/u?/wwdl,1771 |
