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and at the Pembina Eiver and Orwell Reservoirs, at the time of the 

 construction of the dams, in order to make sure that no archeological 

 remains were overlooked. 



Texas. — The River Basin Surveys continued to operate throughout 

 the year from the base and headquarters supplied by the Department 

 of Anthropology at the University of Texas, Austin, Tex. Sur- 

 veys were begun and carried to completion in five Corps of Engineers 

 reservoirs. 



Robert L. Stephenson, archeologist, left Austin at the beginning of 

 the fiscal year and went to Fort Worth where he conferred with the 

 Engineer in Charge, Fort Worth Subofl&ce, Corps of Engineers, 

 preparatory to starting surveys of four reservoir basins on the upper 

 branches of the Trinity River. 



During July he completed investigations at the Benbrook Reservoir 

 on the Clear Fork of the Trinity River in Tarrant County and at the 

 Grapevine Reservoir on Denton Creek in Tarrant and Denton Coun- 

 ties. No sites were found in the Benbrook basin and only 10, none 

 of which require further investigation, were noted at Grapevine. In 

 addition he made a 2-day reconnaissance in the areas of the Lavon 

 Reservoir on the East Fork of the Trinity River and Garza-Little 

 Elm Reservoir on the Elm Fork of the same stream. On the latter 

 trip R. K. Harris, Rex Housewright, and Lester Wilson, of the Dallas 

 Archeological Society, took him to sites that they had previously 

 located in the two areas. 



On August 1, Mr. Stephenson accompanied Drs. Gustav A. Cooper 

 and A. R. Loebhch, Jr., of the United States National Museum, and 

 Robert Stark of Grapevine, Tex., to the vicinity of Bridgeport, 

 Wise County, to collect invertebrate fossils. He also visited the 

 Whitney Reservoir on the Brazos River, Hill County, and collected 

 mollusks, needed to check previous identifications, from several archeo- 

 logical sites. From there he went to the Texarkana Reservoir on the 

 Sulphur River, Bowie County, for the purpose of gathering informa- 

 tion regarding the dates of construction and of determining the neces- 

 sary time and extent of a survey for that basin. During the month 

 he also completed an intensive survey of the Garza-Little Elm basin 

 where he noted 27 sites, 7 of which were recommended for further 

 examination, and started investigations at the Lavon project. The 

 latter continued until September 17 and during the progress of the 

 work he made test excavations at two sites. The survey located 25 

 sites, of which 8 have been recommended for more intensive investiga- 

 tions. Both in the excavations and the survey he was greatly assisted 

 by the members of the Dallas Archeological Society and on September 

 10 spoke before a meeting of that organization. On September 18 he 

 started a survey of the San Angelo Reservoir area on the North Concho 



