Record Details
page 2267
Oregon Digital
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Title | page 2267 |
| Relation | gov serial set 1955 |
| Date | 2005-10-24 to 2005-10-26 |
| 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. 253.211 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 material excavated was hard blue clay. The city bid for removing the bar, but the price bid exceeding the appropriation, the city offered the use of the dredge free of cost, provided the government would keep it in repair. The engineer in charge of improvements of rivers in Oregon, Major R. S. Williamson, Corps of Engineers, accepted the offer, work to begin in August, 1867, at low-water. Up to this time no surveys had been made on the Lower Willamette and Columbia, except one of Swan... |
| Identifier | http://oregondigital.org/u?/wwdl,3246 |
