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crew to begin an investigation at Benham Falls Reservoir in eastern 
Oregon. 
George L. Coale, archeologist, Harry S. Riddell, Jr., field assistant, 
and Douglas Osborne, field assistant, joined the staff of River Basin 
Surveys on June 28 and proceeded to Benham Falls Reservoir to begin 
the season’s survey work there. 
Albert D. Mohr and William S. King, who had assisted Clarence 
BK. Smith during October and November, were employed by the River 
Basin Surveys temporarily as field assistants during the period May 
16-21 to carry out an investigation of the Mariposa Reservoir basin on 
Mariposa Creek on the east side of the San Joaquin Valley in central 
California. Only three small sites were located and none were rec- 
ommended for further investigation. 
Cooperating institutions.—State and local institutions have con- 
tributed to the River Basin Surveys program in various ways. In 
addition to furnishing space for field offices and laboratories as at the 
University of Nebraska, the University of Texas, the University of 
Denver, Western State College, the University of California, and the 
University of Oregon, universities and local institutions in some cases 
have joined forces with the Surveys for cooperative projects and in 
others have taken over units in the survey program. As previously 
mentioned, the excavation project at the O’Sullivan Reservoir in 
Washington was a cooperative undertaking between the University of 
Washington and the River Basin Surveys. This also was true for the 
surveys in western Colorado where members of the Surveys staff 
worked with field parties from Western State College at Gunnison. 
During the year the University of Kentucky made surveys at the 
Wolf Creek Reservoir on the Cumberland River, and at the Dewey 
Reservoir on Johns Creek in the Big Sandy River drainage. In 
addition, the University conducted excavations at the Wolf Creek 
Reservoir and furnished the River Basin Surveys with a detailed 
report on its activities. The University of Georgia established sur- 
veys in the Chattahoochee and Flint River basins and did some ex- 
cavation work in areas which will be inundated. The Alabama Muse- 
um of Natural History did reconnaissance work and some digging. 
The Florida Park Service took over the survey of the area in Florida 
which will be flooded by the construction of the Woodruff Dam on 
the Apalachicola River near Chattahoochee. The University of Ten- 
nessee made a survey of the Stewarts Ferry Reservoir basin on Stones 
River and did preliminary reconnaissance at the Harpeth River proj- 
ect. It also made arrangements for some salvage work at the Center 
Hill Reservoir where the impounding of water began too soon for the 
River Basin Surveys to do more than make a reconnaissance and rec- 
ommend the excavation of certain sites. ‘The University of Missouri, 
in cooperation with the Missouri Archeological Society, made surveys 
