By William "Bill" Peck
(Note: Morton Bodfish was a famous Chicago Banker and Congressional Lobbyist during World War II. He moved to the Wickenburg area in the 1950s and worked the Mesa Bonita Ranch late in life. He died in 1966.)
I was down 300 feet and the well had been a bummer from the start. I went to Morton Bodfish and asked him if it was all right to move over and start a new hole. There went ten days of my labor. He asked what it was going to cost him and I told him that we had agreed upon a price for a single well, not an abandoned hole, and that the price was still the same.
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