high confidence
Claim Details
- Filed
- December 04, 1905
- Recorded
- December 20, 1905
- Recorder
- T.H. Ballard
- Type
- Appropriation
Water Source
- Source
- Mill Creek (town of Lake City)
- Size
- 15.0 miner's inches
- Purpose
- Irrigation, Power
- Diversion
- Box, Ditch
Use Location
The 'Gray Place' — about 600 yards south easterly from diversion point. Diversion from south bank of Mill Creek, about 3 ft from Bridge on Main Street in town of Lake City, about 40 ft NE of Blacksmith Shop (posted on tree just east of bridge). Ditch 2 ft wide top, 1 ft bottom, 1 ft deep.
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.
Uncertain Fields
- Township: No township/range — located by landmarks in Lake City
Transcription (may be incomplete)
James P. Toney... Fifteen (15) inches... Mill Creek... box taken out of a creek... Bridge on Main street in town of Lake City... about forty feet North East of the Blacksmith Shop...
Source Photos
From: Modoc County Water Claims Book 2
— Page 22
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Notes: TOWN-BASED CLAIM — located entirely by town landmarks (Main Street bridge, Blacksmith Shop, 'the Gray Place'). Lake City was a small settlement in Modoc County. Water taken 'in a box' (wooden box/flume intake). Witnesses: Mrs. John Cannon, Mrs. Lora Toney (likely wife). Dual purpose: irrigation AND 'furnish power to irrigate.'