Lee Murphy and Samuel A. Boyd
T39N R17E
medium confidence
Claim Details
- Filed
- May 12, 1899
- Recorded
- June 05, 1899
- Recorder
- E.J. Gammon
- Type
- Appropriation
Water Source
- Source
- Silver Creek
- Size
- 200.0 miner's inches
- Purpose
- Irrigation
- Diversion
- Ditch (Two Ditches, 100 Inches Each)
Use Location
Dewey Township, T39N R17E MDM. Two ditches from Silver Creek, 100 inches each. Water right originally established April 17, 1874 by construction of ditches.
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
- DEBRA COCKRELL
- Right type
- Statement of Div and Use
- Status
- Claimed
- Face value
- 0.0 Acre-feet per Year
- eWRIMS source
- CHERRY CREEK
- Application #
- S021591
Other Claims at This Location (7)
T39N R17E — 2 matched, 4 not in eWRIMS
Lyman D. Barber & German Barber
1878
Matched
C.J. Gooch
1885
Not in ewrims
L.W. Hughes
1887
Not in ewrims
Charles R. Suggett
1891
Potential
Armon Barber
1896
Matched
Lewis F. Gill
1905
Not in ewrims
L.J. Barber
1914
Not in ewrims
Uncertain Fields
- Section: Specific section not clearly stated
Transcription (may be incomplete)
Lee Murphy and Samuel A. Boyd... 200 inches from Silver Creek... Two ditches of 100 inches each... Dewey Township... sworn testimony of Samuel A. Boyd establishing right from April 17, 1874...
Source Photos
From: Modoc County Water Claims Book 1
— Page 336
View →
From: Modoc County Water Claims Book 1
— Page 337
View →
Notes: PRE-EXISTING RIGHT FROM 1874 - Boyd gives sworn testimony about constructing ditches in April 1874, 25 years before this filing. Two separate 100-inch ditches. Dewey Township. Sworn before W.H. McCormick JP. One of the earliest actual use dates documented with sworn testimony.