high confidence
Claim Details
- Filed
- June 10, 1908
- Recorded
- August 13, 1908
- Recorder
- T.H. Ballard
- Type
- Appropriation
Water Source
- Source
- Cow Head Lake
- Size
- 2852.0 miner's inches
- Purpose
- Irrigation And Power
- Diversion
- Tunnel And Ditch
Use Location
Bench and bottom lands north of and east of Alkali Lake and adjacent thereto
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.
Transcription
NOTICE OF APPROPRIATION OF WATER SECTIONS 1410 to 1422. Notice is hereby given that in accordance with the provisions of the laws of the State of California, respecting water rights the undersigned has appropriated and hereby appropriate twenty feet in depth being about 3,110,790,000 cubit feet of water all waters flowing or contained in that certain lake known as 'Cow Head' Lake in Modoc County, State of California.
Source Photos
From: Modoc County Water Claims Book 2
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Notes: Cowhead Lake claim #8 in series (by our count). Filed under Cal. Civil Code Secs 1410-1422. Claims 3,110,790,000 cubic feet = lake contents at 20 feet depth. Dam across outlet on north end, 20 feet high near Juniper tree. Diversion at SW end via tunnel through hill to ravine 1/2-3/4 mile distant. Witness C. Duvall. Recorded at request of Geo. H. Ayres — continuing the Ayres group's systematic claiming of entire lake.