high confidence
Claim Details
- Filed
- January 12, 1909
- Recorded
- January 12, 1909
- Recorder
- T.H. Ballard
- Type
- Appropriation
Water Source
- Source
- South Fork of Pitt River
- Size
- 250.0 miner's inches
- Purpose
- Irrigation And Domestic
- Diversion
- Enlarged Ditch And Natural Channel
Use Location
C.W. Williams' ranch, lands along South Fork of Pitt River
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
KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS; That I C.W. Williams of Modoc County, State of California the undersigned do hereby claim 250 inches of water measured under a four inch pressure of the water flowing in the south fork of Pitt River. By permission from John Bergstrom in the year 1879 I enlarged the ditch and diverted said water from the south fork of Pitt river at a point and place described by said John Bergstrom in a water notice recorded in book 1 page 52 of water claims, records of Modoc County, Cal.
Source Photos
From: Modoc County Water Claims Book 2
— Page 67
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Notes: DERIVATIVE RIGHT — built on John Bergstrom's existing ditch from Book 1 page 52. Williams enlarged the ditch with Bergstrom's permission in 1879 and has used it since. Perfecting 30 years of use. Cross-references Book 1 p.52. Filed and recorded same day. One of the few claims explicitly acknowledging another water right holder's infrastructure.