high confidence
Claim Details
- Filed
- June 01, 1908
- Recorded
- June 12, 1908
- 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 depth (~3,110,790,000 cubic feet) of ALL waters in COW HEAD Lake. Dam about 20 ft high. Tunnel 7x5 ft. Ditch 8x4 ft, 2852 miner's inches. Via ravine system to Alkali Lake area.
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: Cowhead Lake — Cal. C.C. Secs 1410-1422
- Date Filed: Day of June left blank
Transcription (may be incomplete)
Wm Munroe... twenty feet in depth being about 3,110,790,000 cubic feet of water... COW HEAD lake... tunnel to be seven by five feet, ditch to be eight by four feet... 2852 Twenty eight hundred and fifty two miners inches...
Source Photos
From: Modoc County Water Claims Book 2
— Page 45
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Notes: COWHEAD LAKE CLAIM #7. Munroe's solo claim (was joint with Douglas in #3). Witness: Geo. H. Ayres himself. Recorded at request of Geo. H. Ayres. TOTAL: 7 Cowhead Lake claims filed June 1907-June 1908, all coordinated by Ayres group, all with identical tunnel-and-ravine scheme to redirect lake water to Alkali Lake area for irrigation and power.