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Identifier ORU_WTXT_021k
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Title page 9
 
Relation The Columbia River Highway
 
Date 2004-06-16
 
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Description (Reprinted from Contracting, August, 1916) The Multnomah County Mountain Boulevard A Large Variety of Handsome Heavy Road Construction to Attract Tourists and Open Inaccessible, Fertile Country Many Concrete Viaducts, Bridges, Tunnels, Rock Cuts, Heavy Embankments, and High-Class Hard Surface (Contributed) To provide for automobile travel between Portland, Ore., and Astoria, the great fishing and lumber center, 100 miles away, Clatsop and Columbia counties voted bonds amounting to $800,000...
 
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