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Title page 739
Relation gov serial set 1676
Date 2005-08-16 to 2005-08-23
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Description (marked by four buoys—two black and two red) is about 2,500 feet in length, and will, from its nature, always require more or less work. The new one will only be 1,200 feet long, with a width of 150 feet, and can be more readily kept open, if necessary, the currents and ebb tides having a great set that direction. The operations will simply consist in deepening the channel now used by the largest river-steamers which run at present between Portland and Astoria. These draw only about 5 feet...
Identifier http://oregondigital.org/u?/wwdl,2932

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