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Report of the Secretary of War, being part of the Message and Documents Communicated to the Two Houses of Congress at the Beginning of the Third Session of the Forty-Fifth Congress. Volume II. Part II.
Oregon Digital
| Field | Value |
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| Identifier | ORU_WTXT_056 http://oregondigital.org/u?/wwdl,4176 |
| Title | Report of the Secretary of War, being part of the Message and Documents Communicated to the Two Houses of Congress at the Beginning of the Third Session of the Forty-Fifth Congress. Volume II. Part II. |
| Description | 42 p. Includes sections of Appendix JJ: 1878 annual report of Maj. John M. Wilson, Corps of Engineers, detailing surveys and works of river improvements for the Willamette and Columbia rivers. Also included are reports of Channing M. Bolton, Assistant Engineer. 42 p. |
| Relation | Report of the Secretary of War, being part of the Message and Documents Communicated to the Two Houses of Congress at the Beginning of the Third Session of the Forty-Fifth Congress. Volume II. Part II. U.S. Serial Set 1845. Government Printing Office. 1878. University of Oregon Libraries Print Version Available |
| Subject | Rivers; Channels; Rivers; River engineering; River surveys; Willamette River, Oregon; Columbia River; Corvallis, Oregon; Salem, Oregon; Portland, Oregon; Government Document; |
| Creator | Wilson, John M. (Moulder), 1837-1919; Habersham, Robert A. |
| Contributor | United States. Army. Corps of Engineers; |
| Publisher | Washington. U.S. Government Printing Office University of Oregon Libraries |
| Date | 1878 |
| Rights | This item is in the public domain. Acknowledgement of the University of Oregon Libraries as a source is requested. |
| Language | English |
| Type | Text; |
| Format |
Oversized charts and maps as follows: (1) Profile of Lower and Upper Willamette River (chart); (2) Map of Umatilla Upper Rapid; (3) Chart showing location of a canal around the Cascades of the Columbia River; (4) Plan and sections for porposed canal around the Cascades, Oregon; (5) Diagram showing directions and amounts of pressures acting against lock gates under 25 feet of water. Processing of first two images--archive tiff scanned at 600 dpi; jpeg saved at 400 dpi. Image no. 3 processing: orig approx: 26 x 14inch--created as a 3-part stitch in Photoshop CS; scanned at 600 dpi, saved jpeg at 400 dpi, no dimension restrictions at 10427w x 5423h pixels. Image no. 4 processing: orig approx: 20 x 14inch--created as a 2-part stitch in Photoshop CS, scanned at 600 dpi-; saved jpeg at 400 dpi, no dimension restrictions at 7764w x 5134h pixels. Image no. 5 processing: orig approx: 16.5 x 13inch--created as a 2-part stitch in Photoshop CS, scanned at 600 dpi, saved jpeg at 400 dpi, no dimension restrictions at 6410w x 4696h pixels. |
