high confidence
Claim Details
- Filed
- June 07, 1915
- Recorded
- June 07, 1915
- Recorder
- T.H. Ballard
- Type
- Appropriation And Reservoir
Water Source
- Source
- Cow Head Lake (also known as Pelican Lake) (ninth filing)
- Purpose
- Irrigation
- Diversion
- Dam, Tunnel, Canals, And Laterals
Use Location
Bench and bottom land north of and east of Upper and Middle Lakes in Surprise Valley, Modoc County, 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
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
T48N R17E S31
— 1915
Not in ewrims
No location
— 1915
Not in ewrims
Transcription
NOTICE OF APPROPRIATION OF WATER SECTIONS 1410 to 1412. NOTICE is hereby given that in accordance with the provisions of the laws of the state of california respecting water rights, the undersigned has appropriated and does hereby appropriate thirty five feet in depth it being about One hundred and Thirty five Thousand acre feet of water, all water flowing into, to be diverted into and contained in that certain lake known as Pelican or Cow Head Lake, in Modoc county, California.
Source Photos
From: Modoc County Water Claims Book 2
— Page 296
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Notes: Geo. H. Ayres NINTH filing for Cow Head/Pelican Lake! Top of document has typo — says '135,000 acre feet' but bottom explicitly states '125,000 acre feet' (consistent with all previous filings). Same superseding language. Fred H. Briggs is BACK as witness — despite filing his own Cow Head Lake claim on page 291 (via Bank of Fort Bidwell) just two months earlier. This suggests Briggs and Ayres are cooperating, not competing. Dated June 2, 1915. Filed June 7. Recorded by T.H. Ballard with A.M. Ballard, Deputy. 16 months of continuous bi-monthly re-filing.