SECRETARY'S REPORT 51 



Missouri Basin. — The Missouri Basin Project continued to operate 

 throughout the year from the field headquarters and laboratory at 

 1517 O Street, Lincoln, Nebr. Dr. Robert L. Stephenson served as 

 chief of the project throughout the year. Activities included work 

 on all four phases of the Salvage Program: (1) Survey, (2) excava- 

 tion, (3) analysis, and (4) reporting. The first two phases were 

 emphasized through the summer months and the second two during 

 fall and winter. 



At the beginning of the fiscal year the staff, in addition to the chief, 

 consisted of two permanent archeologists, two archeologists detailed 

 to the project from the Washington office, three temporary field as- 

 sistants, one field and laboratory assistant, one administrative assist- 

 ant, one museum aide, one photographer, one clerk-stenographer, and 

 one half-time records clerk. There were 28 temporary laborers in the 

 employ of the field parties. At the -end of the 1956 field season all 

 temporary employees, with the exception of one field assistant and a 

 survey party chief, were terminated. The men detailed to the project 

 for the season returned to their regular duties in Washington in Sep- 

 tember, and the temporary field assistant and survey party chief were 

 terminated in January. During the year two permanent archeolo- 

 gists were added to the staff and four temporary archeologists were 

 employed for the 1957 field season. In June one archeologist and one 

 field assistant were again detailed from Washington for work in the 

 field. At the Lincoln office one clerk-typist, one part-time draftsman, 

 one laboratory assistant, and one part-time laboratory assistant were 

 appointed. At the end of the year there were 76 temporary laborers 

 employed by the field parties. 



During the year 16 River Basin Surveys field parties were active 

 within the Missouri Basin, while 4 others working in reservoirs out- 

 side the Basin also operated from the Project office in Lincoln. Of 

 the 16 Missouri Basin parties, 1 was at work in July, August, and 

 September in the Big Bend Reservoir area, South Dakota, and 5 

 parties were at work there in June. One party was at work in the 

 Fort Randall Reservoir for a brief time in September. Four parties 

 worked in the Oahe Reservoir in July and August and four other 

 parties were there in June; one field party conducted excavations in 

 the Lovewell Reservoir in Kansas in July and August. The four 

 parties operating outside the Missouri Basin were concerned with the 

 Coralville Reservoir in Iowa, the Toronto Reservoir in Kansas, and 

 the Dardanelle Reservoir in Arkansas. 



Other field work in the Missouri Basin during the year included 

 nine field parties from State institutions working under agreements 

 with the National Park Service and in cooperation with the Smith- 

 sonian Institution. Parties from the Universities of South Dakota 

 and Wisconsin and from the North Dakota State Historical Society 



