66 ANNUAL REPORT SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, 1949 
their work by July 17. All the sites located, eight in number, indi- 
cate that they were camping places, and the surface materials col- 
lected from them are typical of the late nomadic Indians of the 
region. Similar sites are abundant outside of the basin of the pro- 
posed reservoir, hence no further investigations are needed there. 
Eastman and Yundt returned to Gunnison, Colo., from the Cimarron 
project and, having completed their reports, resigned from the River 
Basin Surveys on July 23. During the course of their investigations 
they worked under the genera! direction and supervision of Dr. C. T. 
Hurst of Western State College, Gunnison, who had cooperated with 
the River Basin Surveys on a number of previous surveys. 
Arnold M. Withers, archeologist, completed reconnaissance of nine 
proposed reservoir areas in the Blue-South Platte project, which he 
had started toward the end of the previous year, and examined six of 
those in the Gunnison-Arkansas project east of the Rocky Mountains. 
All the proposed reservoirs of the Blue-South Platte project, Two 
Forks, Shawnee, Blue, Snake, Tenmile, Ruedi, Pando, Piney, and 
Empire, are located in the high mountain valleys of the Colorado 
Rockies at altitudes ranging from 8,000 to 10,000 feet above sea level. 
They will be situated in Douglas, Park, Summit, Eagle, Pitkin, and 
Clear Creek Counties. Only six definite archeological sites were 
found in the nine reservoir areas, although further surveys are recom- 
mended for the Snake and the upper part of the Two Forks, and they 
appear to have been temporary camps occupied by a people engaged 
in hunting and gathering wild food products. At none of them are 
the deposits of sufficient depth to warrant excavation. The materials 
collected from the surface suggest that the sites are prehistoric, al- 
though they have no great age, and that they probably are attributable 
to Ute Indians. 
The six proposed reservoirs of the Gunnison-Arkansas project, the 
Graneros, Cedarwood, Ben Butler, Pueblo, Higbee or Purgatoire, and 
Horse Creek, are in the broken country of the High Plains along the 
Arkansas or its tributaries in Pueblo, Huerfano, Otero, and Bent 
Counties, Colo. The rapid survey of the area by Withers produced 
a total of only 13 sites for the project. They consist of rock shelters 
and open camps. At a number of the latter, tipi rings were noted. 
Although the small number of sites indicates that the area was sparsely 
populated, the character of the materials collected from them suggests 
that a long period of time is represented. Testing is recommended 
for some of the rock shelters and two of the stone-circle sites, but none 
appears to be worthy of complete excavation. A more intensive in- 
vestigation of the Pueblo and Purgatoire reservoir basins is indicated 
if the projects are authorized and construction work is started. 
Withers completed his work and left the Surveys on August 14. 
