high confidence
Claim Details
- Filed
- August 10, 1907
- Recorded
- August 12, 1907
- Recorder
- T.H. Ballard
- Type
- Appropriation
Water Source
- Source
- Cowhead Lake
- Size
- 2852.0 miner's inches
- Purpose
- Irrigation, Power
- Diversion
- Dam, Tunnel, Ditch, Ravine Channels
Use Location
20 feet in depth of ALL waters in Cowhead Lake (Secs 1410-1422). SAME scheme as Hartnett claim: dam 12 ft high on North end, diversion at SW end by tunnel (7 x 5 ft) through hill to ravine 1/2 to 3/4 mile distant. Ditch 8 x 4 ft, capacity 2852 miner's inches. Water conducted via ravine system to bench and bottom lands north and east of Alkali Lake. Irrigating and POWER purposes.
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 Geo. H. Ayres (13)
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— 1909
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— 1909
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— 1909
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T39N R16E S10
— 1910
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No location
— 1914
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— 1914
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— 1914
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— 1914
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— 1914
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— 1915
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— 1915
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T48N R17E S31
— 1915
Not in ewrims
No location
— 1915
Not in ewrims
Uncertain Fields
- Township: Uses non-standard section references 1410-1422
Transcription (may be incomplete)
Geo. H. Ayres... Twenty (20) feet in depth (being about 3, 110,700,000 cubic feet of water) of all waters flowing or contained in... Cowhead Lake... tunnel to be 7 by 5 feet, ditch to be 8 by 4 feet... 2852 miners inches...
Source Photos
From: Modoc County Water Claims Book 2
— Page 34
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Notes: SECOND COWHEAD LAKE CLAIM — nearly identical to Hartnett (page 31) but ADDS: power purpose, specific tunnel dimensions (7x5 ft), ditch dimensions (8x4 ft), and capacity (2852 miner's inches). Also quantifies lake volume: ~3,110,700,000 cubic feet. Filed 2 months after Hartnett. Possibly competing claim or partnership. Witness: Jas. G. Barker.