J.J. Spears
R16E S33
low confidence
Claim Details
- Filed
- December 29, 1877
- Recorded
- December 29, 1877
- Recorder
- A. Fitzgerald
- Type
- Appropriation
Water Source
- Source
- Joseph Creek
- Size
- 40.0 miner's inches
- Purpose
- Irrigation, Stock Water, Domestic
- Diversion
- Ditch
Use Location
E half of NE quarter, S half of S quarter of Section 33 and N half of NE quarter of Section 34, Range 16 East, near south side of Goose Lake Valley
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
- Section: Multiple sections described, some numbers uncertain
- Township: Township number not legible
Transcription (may be incomplete)
Know all men by these presents that I J.J. Spears of Modoc County California have on the 27th day of December 1877 claimed and located forty (40) inches to be measured under a four inch pressure of the water flowing in Joseph Creek near the South side of Goose Lake Valley...
Source Photos
From: Modoc County Water Claims Book 1
— Page 90
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Notes: Ditch twelve inches wide and three inches deep. Commences at a point a mile more or less near what is known as Potter's Saw Mill on the north side of stream. Runs southwesterly about 300 yards. Dated December 29 1877.