George Krumme Bristow Quadrangle

BM: This is an interview with George Krumme from the oil company on the location, the survey company, of the first well that was drilled in the Pinehill Community.

GK: According to Bulletin 759 by A.E. Fath of the Oklahoma Geolog--of the United States Geological Survey on the geology of the Bristow Quadrangle in Creek County, Oklahoma which was printed in 1925 but the work began on it--field work for it--began in 1915, the first well drilled in 17-9 was drilled in section 36 by Oklahoma Natural Gas Company. They drilled--they found a gas stand at a depth of 990 to 1,010 feet, which would be, I'm sure, the Cleveland sand, and they 00:01:00encountered an initial flow of seven million cubic feet a day. They turned the gas into their twelve-inch line which at that time ran through just south of where that well would be and carried gas to Oklahoma City from the oilfields of eastern Oklahoma. In 1917, the well was re-opened after having been shut down for some time and at that time its open flow capacity was 350,000 cubic feet a day and the rock pressure was 375 pounds. It was the second successful well in the Bristow Quadrangle according to Fath.

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GK: --Fath, in 1913, another well was drilled in 17-9 in section 29 and also in 00:02:001913 a well was drilled in section 33, 17-9. And unless I'm wrong, that well in section thirte--33 was the well they called the "Hoppy Toad Well" because it was drilled by the Hoppy Toad Oil Company which was one of the companies of the Freeland brothers. Glen Freeland worked on that well and my brothers--my brother and I, my brother Harlan and I--are married to sisters. Their father, F.S. Freeland, worked on that well in 1913 out on Wild Horse Prairie, just north of highway 66, and was drilling on it and caught some--I forgot whether it was typhoid or some ailment and didn't finish completing the well. And he told us about where the well is, I know exactly where it is, on the north side of the road on Wild Horse Prairie. So those are the first three wells drilled according 00:03:00to Fath.

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