Record Details
page 36
Oregon Digital
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Title | page 36 |
| Relation | Power and the Pacific Northwest |
| Date | 2005-04-20 to 2005-05-09 |
| 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. 207.177 kb 8 bit - Gray Gamma 2.2 - greyscale Omnipage 14 used to OCR 8 bit tiffs and generate text files for full text access. 16 bit grayscale and 48>24 RGB color tiffs edited in Photoshop CS 8.0: cropped, rotated, reduced in size, levels adjusted, grayscale bit depth reduced to 8 and JPEGs created. |
| Description | Commission, established the rate per kilowatt year at $14.50 at the dam (busbar) and $17.50 for primary power elsewhere on the transmission system. This original rate of $17.50 continued for 28 years—until 1965. Bonneville Dam's first generator began commercial power production on July 9, 1938. It supplied electricity to BPA's first customer, the City of Cascade Locks, Oregon—three miles away from the dam. Before power ever flowed over the lines, however, the impact of dam construction... |
| Identifier | http://oregondigital.org/u?/wwdl,1961 |
