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William H. Patterson

T41N R16E S2,3,12,13,14,15,23,24 Multiple quarters across Secs 2,3,12,13,14,15,23,24 T41N R16E (irrigation use); Cottonwood Lake bed and margins (reservoir)

medium confidence

Claim Details

Filed
April 03, 1889
Recorded
April 09, 1889
Recorder
J.W. Poor
Type
Appropriation

Water Source

Source
Cottonwood Lake (non-navigable, near Cottonwood Peak/Horse Peak)
Size
2000.0 miner's inches
Purpose
Irrigation
Diversion
Ditch Or Tunnel, Dam

Use Location

Extensive lands across 8+ sections in T41N R16E: parts of Secs 2,3,12,13,14,15,23,24. Multiple existing and planned ditches from Cottonwood Creek with aggregate capacity of at least 2000 inches. Water conducted via tunnel/ditch into natural channel of Cottonwood Creek, then via ditches to lands.

State Database (eWRIMS)

Potential match

This water right may match a record in eWRIMS, but the similarity is not strong enough for a confident match (33% confidence).

Current owner
NORMAN SWEENEY
Right type
Appropriative
Status
Licensed
Face value
355.4 Acre-feet per Year
eWRIMS source
COTTONWOOD CREEK
Application #
A003024

Other Claims at This Location (24)

T41N R16E S2,3,12,13,14,15,23,24 Multiple quarters across Secs 2,3,12,13,14,15,23,24 T41N R16E (irrigation use); Cottonwood Lake bed and margins (reservoir) — 8 matched, 5 not in eWRIMS

Thomas N. Lee
1876 Not in ewrims
Jacob Kitscher
1877 Potential
Middleton Anderson
1877 Matched
Jacob Kimerle
1879 Matched
Robert Fee
1879 Not in ewrims
J.M. Bordwell
1884 Matched
J.S. Moore
1885 Potential
Chris Christensen
1887 Matched
John B. Lindemann
1889 Not in ewrims
A.J. Lee
1889 Potential
George H. Morgan
1900 Matched
Lee Wall Shackelford
1901 Potential
W.E. Roberts
1904 Potential
W.E. Roberts
1904 Potential
W.S. Stevens
1909 Not in ewrims
Mrs. S.A. Linderman
1909 Matched
Edward R. Bunting
1910 Potential
Peter Erramouspe
1910 Potential
John Conklin
1911 Potential
John Conklin
1913 Not in ewrims
Daniel Arthur
1919 Potential

Uncertain Fields

Transcription (may be incomplete)
Notice is hereby given that I M.H. Patterson of the County of Modoc, State of California do hereby claim two thousand and ___ inches measured under a four inch pressure of the water flowing or what I may cause to flow from that certain non navigable Lake or body of water situated in said County of Modoc upon unsurveyed Lands of the United States...

Source Photos

Notes: MASSIVE claim spanning 4 pages. Entire lake claimed as reservoir - bed plus 10 feet above high water mark. Dam 12 feet high at lake outlet. Tunnel 4 ft wide, 6 ft deep to tap lake 10 ft below low water. Water via Cottonwood Creek to irrigation lands. On unsurveyed lands. Notarized by A.C. Kistler. Witnesses: Narciss Guimand, J.W. Drouillard. Name appears as 'M.H. Patterson' in text but signed 'William H. Patterson'. Lake also called 'Cottonwood Lake', peak called 'Horse Peak'.