Record Details
Gauging waters of the Columbia River
Oregon Digital
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Title | Gauging waters of the Columbia River |
| Relation | gov serial set 2183 |
| Date | 2006-02-13 |
| 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 | [unrelated material omitted] 13. Gauging waters of the Columbia River.--The act of August 2, 1882 is the first appropriation for this work. A self-registering gauge was set up at Astoria in February, and has been operated since, and record of reports of pilots made, to test value of gauge-record as an indicator of bar condition, by a comparison of a large number of observations. The amount estimated for, $3,000, is for water-gauges on the Columbia River and principal tributaries.... |
| Identifier | http://oregondigital.org/u?/wwdl,3460 |
