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of American Ethnology, vas detailed to the River Basin Surveys for 

 the purpose of directing the work in this area. On June 30 he had 

 established field headquarters at Eugene, where the Department of 

 Anthropology of the University of Oregon provided office and labora- 

 tory space. Two field parties left Eugene on the morning of June 30, 

 one to make a reconnaissance of the Detroit Keservoir, a Corps of 

 Engineers project on the North Santiam River, in the Willamette 

 Valley, Oreg., and the other to make investigations at the Cascade 

 Reservoir on the North Fork Payette River in Idaho. Plans for the 

 summer called for the survey of 4 Corps of Engineers and 12 Bureau 

 of Reclamation projects. 



Dr. Drucker left Washington on June 17, 1947, for San Francisco, 

 Calif. He spent the day of June 18 at Lincoln, Nebr., studying the 

 operational procedure being used in the Missouri Basin surveys and 

 the laboratory arrangements for processing and cataloging specimens 

 received from the field. He arrived in San Francisco on the 19th and 

 spent the following 2 days in conference with the regional officers of 

 Region 4 of the National Park Service and members of the Department 

 of Anthropology at the University of California in Berkeley. On 

 June 22 he left San Francisco for Portland, Oreg,, arriving on the 

 23d. At Portland he spent 2 days discussing plans for the surveys 

 with Regional Archeologist Louis R. Caywood of the National Park 

 Service, regional officials of the Bureau of Reclamation, and repre- 

 sentatives of the district engineer of the Corps of Engineers. At this 

 time he also made arrangements for the field headquarters at Eugene. 

 He returned to San Francisco on June 24 and reported the results 

 of his trip to Portland to the regional office of the National Park 

 Service. He also recruited personnel for the field parties and made 

 arrangements for the shipment of equipment from Berkeley to Eu- 

 gene. He left Berkeley on June 28, arriving at Eugene, Oreg., on the 

 29th. He left Eugene on June 30 with the field party proceeding to 

 the Cascade Reservoir. 



Clarence E. Sniith, archeologist, was appointed to the Columbia- 

 Snake Basin surveys on June 25. He spent the following 2 days 

 assisting Dr. Drucker and Franklin Fenenga in making preparations 

 for the summer's field w'ork. On June 28 he left Berkeley in company 

 with Fenenga for Eugene, Oreg. They arrived at Eugene on the 

 29th and on the morning of the 30th left for the Detroit Reservoir. 



Ricliard D. Daugherty, archeologist, was appointed to the 

 Columbia-Snake Basin staff on June 30, and left the same day for the 

 Cascade Reservoir in Idaho. 



Francis A. Riddell joined the Surveys staff on June 26, as field 

 assistant. He left Berkeley, Calif., on June 28 and arrived at Eugene, 

 Oreg., on June 29. On June 30 he left Eugene in company with Mr. 

 Daugherty and Mr. Drucker for the Cascade Reservoir. 



