J.W. Hughes
T40N R16E S8,36 NE quarter of Sec 8 T40N R16E (lake); Sec 36 T40N R16E (ditch head); multiple sections for use
medium confidence
Claim Details
- Filed
- August 03, 1889
- Recorded
- October 01, 1889
- Recorder
- J.W. Poor
- Type
- Appropriation
Water Source
- Source
- Emerson Lake (non-navigable lake, also called Emerson Lake)
- Size
- 400.0 miner's inches
- Purpose
- Irrigation, Domestic, Stock
- Diversion
- Tunnel, Dam, Ditch
Use Location
Multiple sections near T40N R16E. Tunnel: 60 inches wide, taps lake 5 ft below low water. Dam: 12 ft high at outlet, raises water 10 ft above high water mark. Hughes-Smith ditch with 900 inch capacity. Water via Emerson Creek natural channel to ditch heads.
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
- THOMAS ESPIL
- Right type
- Statement of Div and Use
- Status
- Inactive
- Face value
- 0.0 Acre-feet per Year
- eWRIMS source
- EMERSON CREEK
- Application #
- S021138
Other Claims at This Location (13)
T40N R16E S8,36 NE quarter of Sec 8 T40N R16E (lake); Sec 36 T40N R16E (ditch head); multiple sections for use — 4 matched, 4 not in eWRIMS
Samuel King
1876
Potential
Samuel King
1877
Not in ewrims
Samuel King
1877
Not in ewrims
Jesse Parman & D.A. Sley
1878
Matched
J.A. Slee
1878
Matched
Claus Peters
1879
Potential
C.A. Snell and E.B. Snell
1892
Potential
Lewis P. Gies
1896
Matched
Albert Vassar
1902
Matched
William J. Hawkins
1906
Not in ewrims
Mary P. Minto
1912
Potential
Theodore P. Maltz
1913
Not in ewrims
Bascom W. Runyon
1914
Potential
Uncertain Fields
- Section: Use land sections partially illegible across multiple pages
- Size Inches: Reads approximately 'four hundred' but partially illegible
Transcription (may be incomplete)
Notice of Water Claim & Reservoir Site. Notice is hereby given that I T. Hughes of the County of Modoc and State of California do hereby locate four hundred inches measured under a four inch pressure of the water flowing or of the water that I may hereafter cause to flow from that certain non navigable lake situated in said Modoc County... known as or called Emerson Lake...
Source Photos
From: Modoc County Water Claims Book 1
— Page 275
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From: Modoc County Water Claims Book 1
— Page 276
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From: Modoc County Water Claims Book 1
— Page 277
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Notes: Major lake reservoir claim spanning 3 pages. Dam 12 ft high at outlet. Tunnel 60 in wide taps 5 ft below low water. Claims entire lake bed plus 10 ft above high water as reservoir. Hughes-Smith ditch (pre-existing, 900 inch capacity). Claim subordinate to existing 500-inch right on Emerson Creek. Notarized by J.J. Lee JP. Witnesses: B.M. Matier, Emmett C. Powers. Name appears as 'T. Hughes' in text but signed 'J.W. Hughes'.