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Show Hyde- D 611 There was the location of the wells first drilled in that San Juan country, with reference to Mexican Hat? The first well drilled was at Goodrich. Goodrich, I would say, was a mile or such a matter, mile and a quarter from the Hat proper, that is, at the bridge, the well was drilled back one hundred and fifty or two hundred yards from the water's edge, and the first well he got, I think, was down about two hundred and eighty- seven feet, and it gushed. That is what started the first oil boom there. I would like to correct myself there. You said the first one, didn't you? Yes. The first well -- Mr. Goodrich came in there to Bluff, and we all donated labor to make a trail so that he could take a rig down to Comb wash. The sand formation stops there; lime formation of the oil anticline at the Comb wash, around what we call the Big Point, across John's canyon, down to the mouth of Grand gulch, very nearly to the mouth. We all chipped in and donated labor. I hired an Indian to help him as my proportion, and he took a rig down there and let the boiler down with a cable rope on to the river bottom where there was an oil seep, and drilled his first well there; he got oil there. About how many miles is that below Mexican Mat? That would probably be about six or eight sections, or six or eight townships -- six townships; you have to do some more 2579 |