Record Details
page 2291
Oregon Digital
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Title | page 2291 |
| 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. 342.329 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 | UMATILLA RAPIDS, 20 MILES BELOW WALLULA, COLUMBIA RIVER. The water in the Upper Columbia was very low throughout the autumn and winter, and the Umatilla Rapids could seldom be passed either way without injury to the boats. In September two boats were lying stranded upon the rocks at the head of the channel at the same time. The improved government channel on the left bank has more water and is straighter than the old channel, but the trouble in using it arises from the swiftness of the... |
| Identifier | http://oregondigital.org/u?/wwdl,3273 |
