A.A. Smith

T45N R13E S26 NE quarter of NW quarter

high confidence

Claim Details

Filed: July 25, 1888
Recorded: July 25, 1888
Recorder: I.B. Reese
Type: Appropriation

Water Source

Source: Goose Lake
Size: 50000.0 miner's inches
Purpose: Irrigation, Manufacturing, Domestic
Diversion: Ditch

Use Location

Diversion at NE quarter of NW quarter Sec 26, Tp 45N R13E MDM. Massive ditch 60 feet wide, 2 feet deep through Secs 26, 27, 34 Tp 45N R13E and further sections into North Fork of Pit River channel. Water to be re-diverted at any point below on either side of river in Pit River Valley, Hot Spring Valley, Stone Coal Valley, or Big Valley.

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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 at This Location (4)

T45N R13E S26 NE quarter of NW quarter — 0 matched, 4 not in eWRIMS

Martin Henderson

1875 Not in ewrims

C. Laure

1888 Not in ewrims

J.M. Thompson

1903 Not in ewrims

C.H. McKendree

1912 Not in ewrims

eWRIMS Records at This Location (1)

Other water rights registered with the state at T45N R13E S26 NE quarter of NW quarter — possibly descendants or successors to unregistered pre-1914 rights.

U S MODOC NATL FOREST

Federal Stockponds Certified

UNST — F003327C

Transcription (may be incomplete)

To all whom it may concern. Notice is hereby given that I claim the right to (50,000) fifty thousand inches of the Waters of the Goose Lake to be diverted at or near this point measured under a four inch pressure... intend to divert said water by means of a Ditch (60) sixty feet wide and (2) two feet deep to be constructed through Secs 26, 27 and 34 Tp 45 N R 13 E... into the channel of the North Fork of Pit River...

Source Photos

From: Modoc County Water Claims Book 1 — Page 228 View →

Notes: MASSIVE SPECULATIVE CLAIM: 50,000 inches from Goose Lake via 60-foot wide canal into Pit River. A.A. Smith appears frequently as recorder of others' claims - this is his own claim. Filed and recorded same day. Would have been one of the largest water claims in county history.