Record Details
Improvement of Columbia River at Cascades, Oregon
Oregon Digital
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Title | Improvement of Columbia River at Cascades, Oregon |
| Relation | gov serial set 2464 |
| Date | 2006-03-23 to 2006-03-31 |
| 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 and 48>24 RGB color 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, bit depth reduced to 8 and JPEGs created. |
| Description | Q Q 3 IMPROVEMENT OF COLUMBIA RIVER AT CASCADES, OREGON. This work is at the Cascades of the Columbia, in the heart of the Cascade Mountains, where navigation is completely obstructed. The project is to build a canal 3,000 feet long, with locks, around the Upper Cascades, and to improve the water-way of the Lower Cascades to such point as will render the river navigable by removing rock obstructions in the bed and along the banks, and by increasing the minimum sections at high and low... |
| Identifier | http://oregondigital.org/u?/wwdl,3731 |
