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page 2575

Oregon Digital

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Title page 2575
Relation gov serial set 2013
Date 2006-01-04 to 2006-01-06
Rights This item is in the public domain. Acknowledgement of the University of Oregon Libraries as a source is requested.
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Format Scanned from originals using Silverfast AI 6.0 on UMAX Powerlook III flatbed scanner. Scanned images saved as 16 bit grayscale tiffs. 356.355 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 steaming from the lower landing (6 miles below main rapids) up through the minor rapids to the foot of the main rapids. The steamer was the Willamette Chief, 18-inch cylinder by 7 1/2-foot stroke, 110 to 121 pounds steam, and 2-feet draught. The time occupied in passing from the foot of Bradford's Island to the foot of the main rapids, a distance of 4 miles, was 30 minutes. The descent to the lower landing was made in 9 minutes. The boat had, at the time of ascent, not to exceed 10 tons...
Identifier http://oregondigital.org/u?/wwdl,3370

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