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Title page 2671
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 If the locks should be built as combined locks with the upper gate of the upper lock near station 14, a bed-rock foundation would be secured for the entire construction, and a wide and easy entrance to the canal could be made at less cost than by the other method. There would be no trouble about drift and ice coming into the canal, because the directions of the wind and currents are such, both in the winter, when the ice breaks up, and during the summer flood, that neither ice nor drift runs...
Identifier http://oregondigital.org/u?/wwdl,3423

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