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Title page 2645
Relation gov serial set 2094
Date 2006-02-06 to 2006-02-08
Rights This item is in the public domain. Acknowledgement of the University of Oregon Libraries as a source is requested.
Format Scanned from originals using Silverfast AI 6.0 on UMAX Powerlook III flatbed scanner. Scanned images saved as 16 bit grayscale tiffs. 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 lamette bar 41 times. No impression was made on the hard, compacted silt of the bottom; the current, even at ebb, was feeble. It was then recommended that the steamship George W. Elder, at the time unemployed, should be used to cut out a channel with her screw. The appropriation did not warrant the charter of so expensive a craft, but her owners offered the ship for the service named to the Portland Board of Trade if that body would pay the expense of operation. The offer was declined....
Identifier http://oregondigital.org/u?/wwdl,3392

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