00:00:00BM: --some of the information that we need. Now then, Mr. Kirchner, on the
survey company, what was the name of that survey company that surveyed this community?
BK: It was done by Dr. Fath and is called The Bristow Quadrangle and it was made
by the U.S.G.S. That's the United States Geological Survey.
BM: And to your knowledge, what year was that done?
BK: Oh, let me see, I don't know but it was the first one that had been done in
its entirety of the geology and topography of the area and it gives all of the
wells that were drilled at that time and the history of them. I would say it was
around 1913 or '14.
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BM: To your knowledge, I was told--to your knowledge, do you know of the well
that was drilled in here on the Violet Williams (ph) or this Jesse Mosquito (ph)
say in about 1911?
BK: No, I do not, but if that well was drilled there, it would be--there would
be a write-up of it in The Bristow Quadrangle.
BM: That information was given to me by Virgil Vann, he said the first well to
knowledge was drilled a mile south of the W.O. Baker place, which the W.O. Baker
00:02:00place would've been the Big Mosquito.
BK: Yeah, I drilled on the Baker place.
BM: You drilled here on the Big Mosquito--
BK: I drilled on the Mosquito.
BM: And he said--Virgil Vann told me that well was drilled in about 1911.
BK: Mm.
BM: But you would say, just personally yourself, without the records, you would
say roughly that the first well, that would be roughly the first well that was drilled.
BK: That's what I think, but that would be disclosed in that--in the write-up on
17-9 and the Bristow Quadrangle, which you can get from George--Mr. George Krumme.
BM: Okay.
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BM: --and who--
BK: It was Claude Freeland and some relative of theirs that drilled the first
00:03:00well that I recall in seventeen-nine, they're the ones that opened the pool in
16-9, they opened the Bristow Dutcher fields.
MM: Where was that? The Bristow Dutcher fields?
BM: Where was that located?
BK: That's on out east of town here in 16-9, east of Bristow.
BM: The opened up the one in 16-9 and you're sure that they're the
one--reasonably sure that they were the one that drilled the first one in 17-9.
BK: Yes, sir, I am. I am.
BM: I had talked to Carl Glen (ph) on the phone, I talked to him and he hasn't
been much help as yet on it.
BK: Well, he's just recovering from eye surgery and he hadn't completely
recovered yet.
BM: So his thinking isn't--
BK: That's right.
BM: --isn't too strong. And at a later date probably his thinking will be better
and he will be able to remember a lot of these things that he was in on there
00:04:00with Claude, why he will remember about that.
BK: That's right.
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