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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 Second Session of the Forty-Ninth Congress. In Four Volumes. Volume II. Part 3.
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| Identifier | ORU_WTXT_072 http://oregondigital.org/u?/wwdl,4191 |
| 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 Second Session of the Forty-Ninth Congress. In Four Volumes. Volume II. Part 3. Appendixes to the Report of the Chief of Engineers, United States Army. (Continued.) 1886. |
| Description | 67 p. Includes sections of Appendix QQ: 1886 annual report of Major W. A. Jones, and selections from Appendix RR, reports of Capt. Charles F. Powell, Corps of Engineers, detailing construction, maps and other works related to river and harbor improvements for the Willamette, Columbia and Snake rivers. 67 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 Second Session of the Forty-Ninth Congress. In Four Volumes. Volume II. Part 3. U.S. Serial Set 2464. Government Printing Office. 1886. University of Oregon Libraries Print Version Available |
| Subject | Rivers; Channels; Harbors; Rivers; River engineering; River surveys; Columbia River; Willamette River, Oregon; Snake River; Portland, Oregon; Saint Helens, Oregon; Astoria, Oregon; Corvallis, Oregon; Eugene, Oregon; Government Document; |
| Creator | Jones, W. A.; Powell, Charles F.; |
| Contributor | United States. Army. Corps of Engineers; |
| Publisher | Washington. U.S. Government Printing Office University of Oregon Libraries |
| Date | 1886 |
| 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 | First Rapid, Second Rapid, Third Rapid, Diagram Section of Rapid No. 6, Sixth Rapid, Seventh Rapid, and Cabinet Rapids are all color maps, scanned at 42>24 bit, 600 dpi. OCR text transcribed manually. Image areas sampled for tonal range, RGB color channels adjusted, images flattened & sharpened . Format saved as jpg, reduced to 400 dpi. -- Cabinet Rapids Columbia River Washington Territory map: Original map size (approx.) 28.5' x 11". Scanned in three parts at 600 dpi, 16 bit; stitched into one image via Photoshop CS, OCR text transcribed manually; jpeg reduced to 8 bit, 400 dpi w/final size at 16866 x 649 pixels. -- Map of Yakima Region: Original map size (approx.) 23.5" x 25.75". -- Entrance to the Columbia River: Original map size (approx.) 12.5" x 15". Scanned in two parts at 600 dpi, 16 bit; stitched into one image via Photoshop CS, OCR text transcribed manually; jpeg reduced to 8 bit, 400 dpi w/final size at 8961 x 7369 pixels. -- Improvement of Mouth of the Columbia: Original map size (approx.) 17.75" x 9". Scanned in two parts at 600 dpi, 16 bit; stitched into one image via Photoshop CS, OCR text transcribed manually; jpeg reduced to 8 bit, 400 dpi w/final size at 10155 x 5211 pixels. |
