high confidence
Claim Details
- Filed
- April 10, 1909
- Recorded
- April 13, 1909
- 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.
Other Claims by Geo. H. Ayres (13)
No location
— 1907
Not in ewrims
No location
— 1909
Not in ewrims
No location
— 1909
Not in ewrims
T39N R16E S10
— 1910
Not in ewrims
No location
— 1914
Not in ewrims
No location
— 1914
Not in ewrims
No location
— 1914
Not in ewrims
No location
— 1914
Not in ewrims
No location
— 1914
Not in ewrims
No location
— 1915
Not in ewrims
No location
— 1915
Not in ewrims
T48N R17E S31
— 1915
Not in ewrims
No location
— 1915
Not in ewrims
Transcription
NOTICE OF APPROPRIATION OF WATER SECTIONS, 1410 to 1422. twenty feet in depth being about 3,110,790,000 cubit feet of water all waters flowing into or contained in that certain lake known as 'cow head' lake in Modoc County, California.
Source Photos
From: Modoc County Water Claims Book 2
— Page 74
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Notes: Cowhead Lake claim #12 — GEO. H. AYRES FILES IN HIS OWN NAME. After orchestrating 11 claims by others (Hartnett, Douglas x3, Rucher, Munroe x2, Smith, Miles, Banks, Phillips), Ayres finally claims the lake himself. Same tunnel scheme, 40,000 inches, 20-foot dam. Witness L.E. Seager. Ayres has now personally filed AND organized 12 total claims on one lake.