Radigast said:
Oh, I thought you were joking about the tree, so I was just kind of joking back. What I was getting at about the rock was that it may have been moved by someone just to cover the well, and if so, then the original place it was located may have some relevance. I tried to find out when corrugated metal roofing was first used in the midwest which is what these photos look like to me. What I did find out is that it was developed in the 1820s in England and was used in rural areas in the US shortly after that. What I wonder is how soon it became common in the western states enough for someone to use it to cover an old well. I just don't think that someone would have left a clue to a cache on top of a well where the sheet metal could rust through and the stone fall into the well.
No problem, Radigast. Everything is copacetic now. LOL As far as covering that well; when I was a kid back in the 1950s, all around the country, kids would find ways to fall into wells. Both those in current use and old abandoned ones. Thinking, responsible people would put some sort of solid cover over their wells when they moved away from their property as a safety factor. In the EARLY 50s there was even a song written called,
The Little Girl Who Fell In The Well. It was a folksong and no this is no joke either. That corrugated steel would have been considered a loooong lasting cover and the stone would have been put on it to keep it from blowing away.
Oklahoma winds NEVER stop blowing; they just change speed, direction, and force.