low confidence
Claim Details
- Filed
- May 14, 1877
- Recorded
- May 14, 1877
- Recorder
- N. FitzGerald
- Type
- Appropriation
Water Source
- Source
- Birch Ranch Creek
- Size
- 500.0 miner's inches
- Purpose
- Stock, Irrigation
- Diversion
- Ditch
Use Location
Surprise Valley, OX Ranch at Cedarville
State Database (eWRIMS)
Not in state DB
This water right does not appear in California's eWRIMS database. The holder likely has not filed a Statement of Diversion and Use with the State Water Resources Control Board. Pre-1914 rights are only in eWRIMS if holders voluntarily filed — many have not, making these rights less visible to the state.
Uncertain Fields
- Range: not stated
- Township: not stated
- Claimant Name: filed by H.H. Ewing; notice signatures illegible (possibly Germanic names, e.g. 'Fred Kuhl & Son')
Transcription
Notice!! Notice is hereby given that the undersigned appropriate from Birch Ranch Creek in Surprise Valley, County of Modoc, State of California, 500 or Five Hundred inches of water measured under a four inch pressure. The said quantity of water is appropriated for stock and agricultural purposes and to be used on the ranches of the undersigned, known as the OX Ranch.
Source Photos
From: Modoc County Water Claims Book 1
— Page 70
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From: Modoc County Water Claims Book 1
— Page 71
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Notes: Surprise Valley, Cedarville. OX Ranch. Ditch: 4 feet wide, 2 feet deep. Diversion on right bank of creek, ¾ mile west of west line at base of foothills. Filed by H.H. Ewing; notice signatures illegible. Dated May 11, 1877.