medium confidence
Claim Details
- Filed
- September 10, 1866
- Recorded
- January 07, 1884
- Recorder
- P.S. Chapman
- Type
- Appropriation
Water Source
- Source
- Rutherfords Creek
- Purpose
- Irrigation
- Diversion
- Ditch
Use Location
Situated between Soldiers and Mill Creeks in Surprise Valley. Used on William Brown's ranch.
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
- Size Inches: Not specified - claims 'all of the waters'
Transcription (may be incomplete)
Notice is hereby given that I have this day filed in the Recording Office of Siskiyou County the Water Claim that I did heretofore locate and taken up to wit: all of the waters of Rutherfords Creek situated between Soldiers and Mill Creeks in Surprise Valley...
Source Photos
From: Modoc County Water Claims Book 1
— Page 164
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Notes: SISKIYOU 1866. Originally filed by William Brown, transferred to Joseph Portman July 16, 1872. Book 3 page 306. By Thomas Magoffin Deputy under P.S. Green Recorder. Transcribed to Modoc Jan 7, 1884.