Record Details
page 2268
Oregon Digital
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Title | page 2268 |
| 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. 284.712 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 | Operations were confined to dredging on Swan Island Bar, where 1,400 cubic yards were removed. The channel cut was 1.7 feet deep at low-water, and 85 feet long, 2,000 linear feet yet remaining to be cut through, with a width of from 200 to 250 feet. Saint Helen's Bar, on the Columbia, 15 miles below the mouth of the Willamette, began to offer serious obstruction, making it necessary to lighten ships before they could ascend higher. At the mouth of the Willamette the same difficulties... |
| Identifier | http://oregondigital.org/u?/wwdl,3247 |
