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1. Salmon-Fishing By Machinery On The Columbia River
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Brief article detailing the use of fishing wheels for catching salmon on the Columbia River. Most of the page is taken up by a drawing of a fishing boat equipped with a fishing wheel. The drawing shows four men on the boat who are pulling the fish from the wheel and stacking them on the deck of the boat. Three people stand watching on the banks of the river. Cliffs and mountains are visible in the background.
2. Annual Reports of the War Department for the Fiscal Year Ended June 30, 1899. Report of the Chief of Engineers Part 4
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78 p. Includes sections of Appendix SS: Report of Capt. William W. Harts, Corps of Engineers; and Appendix TT: Report of Maj. W. L. Fisk, Corps of Engineers. Additional information on these topics can be found by consulting the Indexes to the Chief of Engineers Reports 1866-1912: http://boundless.uoregon.edu/cgi-bin/docviewer.exe?CISOROOT=/wwdl&CISOPTR=1082 and 1913-1917: http://boundless.uoregon.edu/cgi-bin/docviewer.exe?CISOROOT=/wwdl&CISOPTR=1112
3. Beautiful Link in Our Highway System
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1 p. article describing the building of the Columbia River Highway, including construction details. The article also contains four photographs: one depicting the bridge at Shepperd's Dell, one depicting the entrance to the observatory tunnel, one depicting Mitchell's Tunnel through Storm Cliff; one showing the overlook at Crown Point on the Columbia River.
4. 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 Fifty-Second Congress. Volume II. Part III.
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Selected pages from the Report of the Secretary of War, Volume 2, Part 3, in 1892. Serial Set 3080.
5. Bonneville Dam: 1939 Aerial Photographs
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3 aerial photographs and a guide map of the Bonneville Dam area taken in 1939 as part of the OCSW river survey.
6. Lumber Rafts on the Columbia River
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1 p. Article describing the construction and use of rafts designed to transport lumber on the Columbia River. Also included on the page is the completion of an unrelated article, as well as a summary of the contents of the journal supplement.
7. Columbia River Power and the Northwest
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30 p. This pamphlet, published by the Bonneville Power Administration, details that body's construction of the Bonneville and Grand Coulee dams. It discusses the benefits from improved inland navigation and transportation, irrigation, and power supply produced by these projects. There is much discussion and comparison of electric rates. The pamphlet is heavily illustrated with black and white drawings, charts, and maps.
8. Columbia Unveiled : being the story of a trip, alone, in a rowboat from the source to the mouth of the Columbia River, together with a full description of the country traversed, and the rapids battled, by an old voyager and whitewater man
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446 p. At the age of 68 M. J. Lorraine explored the Columbia River from its source to its mouth alone in a rowboat. He was the second person, after David Thompson in 1811, to make this unbroken voyage in one boat, which he had built himself. The book describes his preparations for the journey and experiences along the way as well as the country through which he travelled, and is illustrated with a number of black-and-white photographs he took en route.
9. Down the Columbia
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383 p. Account of the author's boat trip down the Columbia River from its source to the sea, with black-and-white photographs.
10. Through the Columbia River Gorge by Auto
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Article by Randall R. Howard. The author describes the construction of the Columbia River Highway, and takes us on an automobile journey along the Highway from Portland, Oregon to The Dalles and Celilo Falls. Accompanying photographs are of a stretch of highway on the Washington side of the Columbia River, built by Sam Hill of Maryhill; a bridge above the stream from Latourelle Falls; a tunnel through the rock at Oneonta Gorge; and a view of Celilo Falls.
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