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J.W. Hartnett

medium confidence

Claim Details

Filed
June 10, 1907
Recorded
June 13, 1907
Recorder
T.H. Ballard
Type
Appropriation

Water Source

Source
Cowhead Lake
Purpose
Irrigation
Diversion
Dam, Tunnel, Ravine Channels

Use Location

20 feet in depth of ALL waters in Cowhead Lake (references Secs 1410-1422). Dam 12 ft high across outlet on North end. Diversion at SW end of lake near where road intercepts. By cut or TUNNEL through the hill directly back of diversion, to a ravine 1/2 to 3/4 mile distant running NE-SW. Water conducted along ravine to intersection with another ravine running NW-SE, thence along that ravine to lands north of and east of Alkali Lake.

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

Transcription (may be incomplete)
J.W. Hartnett... twenty feet (20ft) in depth of all water flowing or contained in or may hereafter be contained in that certain Lake known as Cowhead Lake in Modoc, County State of California... dam to be built twelve feet in height... cut or tunnel through the hill...

Source Photos

Notes: MASSIVE LAKE CLAIM — claims 20 ft depth of entire Cowhead Lake plus all inflows. Ambitious tunnel-through-hill scheme to redirect water via ravine system to Alkali Lake area. Secs 1410-1422 reference unclear — possibly non-PLSS numbering. Witness: Frank Rucher. COMPARE with Ayres claim (page 33) — nearly identical scheme, different claimant.