Mr. De Mohrenschildt. At Rangely. Colo., it stopped being an operating oil field, and it became a statistical job. When I moved there first it was the greatest boomtown and the greatest drilling place in the United States. We had 30 rigs going. It was very interesting.
Every day we had new problems. It was a very active life. Then at the end of my stay there was no work practically except to compile the statistical report. So naturally I started going to Aspen more often. I don't think I ever had any complaint against me.
Mr. Jenner. You were interested a great deal initially when the field was being developed.
Mr. De Mohrenschildt. That is right.
Mr. Jenner. When it degenerated, if I may use that term, into a statistical assembly, you lose interest, spent more time over at Aspen, and there were some disagreements about that, a difference of opinion, and your employers questioned it.
Mr. De Mohrenschildt. That is right.
Mr. Jenner. Was there any problem about your savoir-faire, for example, attitude with respect to keeping expenses?
Mr. De Mohrenschildt. Maybe so. But you know, our salary was very small there, and so we had to show certain expenses. They never questioned me. But possibly they considered my living expenses were too high. But I was the only one to do the job, instead of two. I kept the budget, more or less, at the same level, maybe lower.
Mr. Jenner. Now, you terminated your employment in January 1949, did you not?
Mr. De Mohrenschildt. I think so. The date is not clear to me.