high confidence
Claim Details
- Filed
- October 10, 1908
- Recorded
- October 12, 1908
- Recorder
- T.H. Ballard
- Type
- Appropriation
Water Source
- Source
- Cow Head Lake
- Size
- 40000.0 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. does appropriate twenty feet in depth being about 3,110,700,000 cubic feet of water, all waters flowing or contained in that certain lake known as 'Cow Head' lake in Modoc, California.
Source Photos
From: Modoc County Water Claims Book 2
— Page 59
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Notes: Cowhead Lake claim #9 — ENORMOUS 40,000 miner's inches claimed! 3,110,700,000 cubic feet (vs 3,110,790,000 in Smith claim — slight discrepancy). Dam to 20 feet height (vs 12 feet in Smith's claim). Same tunnel scheme to Alkali Lake. Witness Giles F. Munroe (likely related to earlier Munroe claimants). Recorded at request of Geo. H. Ayres. Harold Miles new to the group but part of same coordinated effort.