high confidence
Claim Details
- Filed
- October 15, 1910
- Recorded
- October 15, 1910
- Recorder
- T.H. Ballard
- Type
- Appropriation
Water Source
- Source
- Soldier Creek
- Purpose
- Milling, Mining, And Irrigation
- Diversion
- Ditch (Tate And Cook Ditch)
Use Location
Surprise Valley, Siskiyou County (transcribed to Modoc County records)
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.
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Transcription
Know all men by these presents that we the undersigned company of Siskiyou Co., California have this day taken up under the mining laws of the State of California all the Water and Timber on Soldier Creek for milling and mining purposes, from the mouth of the canyon up the creek and also claim what Waters a certain ditch will carry for irrigating purposes known as the Tate and Cook ditch and used by them Since the 1st of April 1855.
Source Photos
From: Modoc County Water Claims Book 2
— Page 156
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Notes: SISKIYOU TRANSCRIPTION — EARLIEST USE DATE IN ENTIRE RECORD: April 1, 1855! Pre-dates Neasham's 1859 claim. Water AND timber claim under mining laws. Company members: Wm. Merithew, D. Nunmaker, E. Riter, J.R. Cooke. Original signed Dec 19, 1866 in Surprise Valley. Originally filed Jan 16, 1867 by R.S. Green, Recorder (H.A. Rogers Deputy) — 5th Siskiyou recorder name. Certified by Eugene Dowling from Book 3 of Mining Claims page 321, Oct 11, 1910. Recorded in Modoc at request of Modoc Abstract Co., Oct 15, 1910. 'Tate and Cook ditch' is a named infrastructure from 1855.