high confidence
Claim Details
- Filed
- April 30, 1913
- Recorded
- April 30, 1913
- Recorder
- T.H. Ballard
- Type
- Appropriation
Water Source
- Source
- Mill Creek
- Size
- 300.0 miner's inches
- Purpose
- Mill, Irrigation, And Ordinary Household
- Diversion
- Dam/Reservoir Gateway And Ditch
Use Location
Lands sold by W.B. Swearingen to Lake City Mill owners, Lake City area
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
W.B. Swearingen et al Water Claim. Notice. We the undersigned have this day taken up and appropriated (300) three hundred inches of water running in this Mill Creek to be taken out at this point or through the Gateway of the dam or Reservoir of the Lake City Mill Company in the ditch the right of way for which was reserved by W.B. Swearingen.
Source Photos
From: Modoc County Water Claims Book 2
— Page 226
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Notes: SISKIYOU TRANSCRIPTION. LAKE CITY MILL COMPANY — industrial water use (sawmill). Very early: January 13, 1871 — one of earliest Siskiyou transcriptions. 'Lake City' — historic settlement near Surprise Valley. W.B. Swearingen reserved right-of-way for ditch when he sold land to Mill Company. MILL purpose listed first — industrial use primary. Original recorded in Vol. 4 of MINING claims page 123 (not water rights book — filed in mining records!). Siskiyou recorder: Austin Hawkins, F.R. Hogeboom Deputy. Certified by Eugene Dowling, April 25, 1913. Filed in Modoc at request of Modoc Abstract Co., April 30.