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Survey of Columbia and Snake Rivers

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Title Survey of Columbia and Snake Rivers
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.
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Description agan and Columbia rivers to Celilo without mishap, intending to put machinery in and take goods to Keith River and Samalkameen mines; but the finding of Salmon River and Oro Fino mines caused him to run her up Snake River to Lewiston. This digression is to show that if a boat of that size could be brought down without steam safely, a steamboat, if larger, ought to make the trip. Above or to the eastward of the California settlement, is the Big Bend country proper, at the upper end of which is...
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