Record Details
Field | Value |
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Title | page 665 |
Relation | gov serial set 1744 |
Date | 2005-08-31 to 2005-09-06 |
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. 339.559 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 | The contract-work having been finished, and operations being still in progress under verbal agreement, it was intended to continue on up the rapid and to remove rocks 17, 18, 19, and 20. On March 1, while engaged on rock 17, the holes having been drilled and cartridges inserted, just as the capstan was being manned, a terrific explosion of giant-powder took place on board the scow, whereby 13 men were killed, one dangerously wounded, and the whole plant destroyed. It is impossible to... |
Identifier | http://oregondigital.org/u?/wwdl,3033 |