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Title page 352
Relation gov serial set 1637
Date 2005-08-15
Rights This item is in the public domain. Acknowledgement of the University of Oregon Libraries as a source is requested.
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Format Scanned from originals using Silverfast AI 6.0 on UMAX Powerlook III flatbed scanner. Scanned images saved as 16 bit grayscale tiffs. 307.821 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 caused by the great conflagration in Portland during that month. On the 1st of September the dredger, dump-scows, and wood-scow were towed to the mouth of the river by the steam-tug Ben Holliday, and the operation of dredging the bar commenced. Four cuts, each 30 feet in width, were made to the depth of 17 feet, opening a channel-way of 1,800 feet in length by 120 feet in width. The quantity of sand and mud removed amounted to 8,550 cubic yards. The work at this point was completed by the...
Identifier http://oregondigital.org/u?/wwdl,2894

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