medium confidence
Claim Details
- Filed
- April 16, 1866
- Recorded
- May 10, 1886
- Recorder
- P.S. Chapman
- Type
- Appropriation
Water Source
- Source
- small creek from mountain
- Size
- 55.0 miner's inches
- Purpose
- Irrigation
- Diversion
- Ditch
Use Location
NW corner of ranch in Surprise Valley. Bounded: west by mountain, north by Jo. Smith Claim, east by the lake, south by Thomas Morrison claim.
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.
Other Claims by S.A. Boyd (1)
No location
— 1866
Not in ewrims
Uncertain Fields
- Size Inches: Described as 'fifty or sixty inches' - recorded as midpoint 55
Transcription (may be incomplete)
Know all men by these presents that the undersigned claims the right to the use of the water for irrigating purposes of a certain small creek running from the mountain on to the north west corner of my ranch...
Source Photos
From: Modoc County Water Claims Book 1
— Page 194
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Notes: SISKIYOU TRANSCRIPTION 1866 - among earliest claims. No T/R/S - uses metes and bounds (mountain, lake, neighbors). Book 3 page 277. Transcribed at request of Mrs. A.B. Boyd. P.S. Green, Recorder, F.C. Rogers Deputy.