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page 2557

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Title page 2557
Relation gov serial set 2013
Date 2006-01-04 to 2006-01-06
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Description The operations for the maintenance and improvement of the channel consisted in the removal of portions of several rocks from the vicinity of Rock Island, 16 miles above Portland, and in the ordinary work of the snag-boat, removing snags and drift, cutting overhanging trees from the banks, repairing injuries to wing-dams, scraping shoal bars, straightening crooked channels across the gravel bars, &c. The rock excavation was done by Joseph Paquet, under his contract dated September, 1879,...
Identifier http://oregondigital.org/u?/wwdl,3348

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