high confidence
Claim Details
- Filed
- April 16, 1866
- Recorded
- May 10, 1901
- Recorder
- E.J. Gammon
- Type
- Appropriation
Water Source
- Source
- unnamed small creek (Surprise Valley, from mountain)
- Size
- 60.0 miner's inches
- Purpose
- Irrigation
Use Location
NW corner of ranch/claim in Surprise Valley. Bounded: west by Mountain, north by Jo Smith claim, east by the lake, south by Thomas Morrison claim. No survey description - pre-survey era.
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: Creek 'affords fifty or sixty inches' - not a precise claim amount
Transcription (may be incomplete)
S.A. Boyd... claims the right to the use of the water for irrigation purposes of a certain small creek running from the mountain onto the North West corner of my Ranch... affords fifty or sixty inches of water...
Source Photos
From: Modoc County Water Claims Book 1
— Page 360
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Notes: SISKIYOU COUNTY TRANSCRIPTION (TYPED). April 16, 1866 - one of the EARLIEST claims. Same S.A. Boyd from batch_033 Murphy/Boyd sworn testimony about 1874 rights. Land described by neighbors (Jo Smith, Thomas Morrison) not survey - pre-survey Surprise Valley. Originally recorded Siskiyou April 28, 1866 by R.S. Green, Recorder (F.A. Rogers, Deputy). Certified by Eugene Dowling (new Siskiyou recorder). Recorded in Siskiyou Vol 3 Mining Claims page 277. Re-recorded Modoc May 10, 1901 at request of E.C. Bonner.