Record Details
page 908
Oregon Digital
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Title | page 908 |
| Relation | gov serial set 1504 |
| Date | 2005-08-04 to 2005-08-08 |
| 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. 311.458 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 | CHITWOOD BAR. This is about a mile and a half below Salem, and gives the steamboat men considerable trouble during low-water stage of the river. The river contains a long gravel-bar or island, the foot of which is about 600 feet above the shoal. At the shoal the river widens suddenly from 300 to 675 feet. Immediately above and below the shoal is a good channel, carrying upward of 3 feet of water. Length of the shoal between the 3-foot curves, above and below, is 475 feet. On the west... |
| Identifier | http://oregondigital.org/u?/wwdl,2866 |
