high confidence
Claim Details
- Filed
- October 03, 1908
- Recorded
- October 09, 1908
- Recorder
- T.H. Ballard
- Type
- Appropriation
Water Source
- Source
- Bidwell Creek
- Size
- 500.0 miner's inches
- Purpose
- Power And Milling
- Diversion
- Dam And Ditch With Penstock
Use Location
Flour Mill of Empire Mill and Electric Company on North side of Bidwell Creek, near Fort Bidwell
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. Is hereby given that we the undersigned, hereby appropriate and claim, for power and milling purposes, Five hundred inches, measured under a four inch pressure, of the waters here flowing in this stream known as Bidwell Creek, in the county of Modoc, State of California.
Source Photos
From: Modoc County Water Claims Book 2
— Page 58
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Notes: Corporate claim — Empire Mill & Electric Company, by H.B. Stephens, President. Dam about 300 yards below where creek first forks above Fort Bidwell. Elaborate infrastructure: dam, 1.5 mile ditch with precise grade specs, penstock on mountain side, 20-inch pipe to flour mill. Explicitly states water 'to be returned to the natural channel of said stream without diminution or waste' — non-consumptive use promise. Witness not named.