Record Details
page 2666
Oregon Digital
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Title | page 2666 |
| 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 | 73. Considerable blasting was done at intermediate places and next below station 73. The drilling was done partly by steam and partly by hand. From the scarcity of white men a small force of Chinese drillers was employed. For work on rocks in the channel removed from shore, the steam-drill scow was used, or where the rocks furnished good footing and could be reached by small boat, drilling by hand was done. The largest of these masses is called Umatilla Rock; some small blasts were fired... |
| Identifier | http://oregondigital.org/u?/wwdl,3418 |
