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page 2007

Oregon Digital

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Title page 2007
Relation gov serial set 2185
Date 2006-02-13 to 2006-02-20
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 At Nigger Tom Slough piles were first driven along the axis of the dam 10 feet apart. Mats made of fascines, 15 by 30 feet, were then made on a cradle mounted on an open barge, or on inclined ways on the beach, and hauled alongside the piles, on both sides, and made fast with ropes, forming a, base, on which the dam was built of layers of fascines crossed, as above described, the mass sinking, as layer after layer was added, until it reached the bottom, the top still remaining above water....
Identifier http://oregondigital.org/u?/wwdl,3481

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