Record Details
page 2045
Oregon Digital
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Title | page 2045 |
| 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 | before any improvements were made, and 57 miles where navigation is known to be practicable. Open river work at Priest Rapids on the Columbia will enable a boat to ascend 153 miles further. North of this there are 430 miles of water to the head of navigation, broken only at two places where permanent portages may be preferable to canals. The Columbia is second only to the Mississippi in commercial value, and possesses the advantages of stability of banks, rendering improvements at the rock... |
| Identifier | http://oregondigital.org/u?/wwdl,3515 |
