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Valley, viz. Dexter, Hills Creek, Cougar, Blue Kiver, Gate Creek, 

 Green Peter, Cascadia, Wiley Creek, Holly, Falls Creek, and White 

 Bridge. The Big Cliff, which had been surveyed by Osborne the 

 previous spring, was revisited. Probably because of the extreme 

 steepness of the terrain and the dense cover of timber, nothing of 

 archeological interest was found. It seems likely that the small 

 tributary canyons in which those reservoirs will be located were 

 never used by Indians except for temporary hunting and fishing 

 grounds. 



From the Willamette area. Case and Salisbury proceeded to the 

 Heise-Roberts project on the Snake River in southeastern Idaho. 

 That project consists mainly of bank-control work and when com- 

 pleted will not flood any of the adjacent area. Careful examination 

 of the terrain to be disturbed by the construction work failed to reveal 

 any archeological remains, and so further work at that location wUI 

 not be necessary. From there the survey team went to the Crow 

 Creek Reservoir near the Idaho-Wyoming border. Careful search 

 of the area to be flooded by that project failed to reveal any archeo- 

 logical sites, and no further investigations will be required. From 

 Crow Creek, Case and Salisbury returned to the Post Reservoir, 

 which will be on the Crooked River, 10 miles east of the town of Post, 

 Oreg. That district was occupied at one time by small bands of the 

 northern Paiute, and since their economy was based on hunting and 

 gathering, they spent little time in any one spot. Consequently, 

 only three small camp sites were found in the area that will be flooded. 

 At all three the archeological materials were found to occur only on 

 the surface, and no further work has been recommended for that 

 reservoir. 



During the faU and winter months Shiner processed the materials 

 from the McNary excavations and prepared the preliminary appraisal 

 reports on the results of the surveys. In collaboration with Douglas 

 Osborne, a preliminary report was written, giving the results of the 

 excavation program in the McNary Reservoir. In February, Mr. 

 Shiner, with a party of students from the University of Oregon, 

 excavated a small cave east of The Dalles where the relocation of a 

 highway was destroying archeological material. This project was in 

 cooperation with the University of Oregon, which provided the student 

 labor and assumed all the expenses of the project. An interesting 

 series of artifacts was obtained, showing a sequence of types for the 

 area. 



In the early part of June Mr. Shiner made an inspection trip to the 

 Cascade Reservoir on the Payette River, Idaho, to determine the 

 condition of an archeological site where excavations were planned. 

 On his arrival there he found that the water in the reservoir had risen 



