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Title page 2054
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 RESULTS OF THE WORK ON RIVER IMPROVEMENT. Before any work on the river was done the worst places were Big Eddy Rapid at low stages and the Middle Block House Rapid at higher stages of water. It is believed that no steamer had been able to ascend the latter rapid at a higher stage that 15 feet above extreme low water, but a number of passages through both rapids hail been made at lower stages. The removal of the rock from the right bank at then two points during the winter of 1881-'82, and...
Identifier http://oregondigital.org/u?/wwdl,3525

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