high confidence
Claim Details
- Filed
- August 03, 1918
- Recorded
- August 03, 1918
- Recorder
- T.H. Ballard
- Type
- Appropriation
Water Source
- Source
- Willow Creek
- Size
- 200.0 miner's inches
- Purpose
- Ranching And Mining
- Diversion
- Ditch
Use Location
Land claimed under possessory laws of California by Gustave Siebeck, Surprise Valley, Siskiyou County
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
Gustave Siebeck. water claim. know all men by these presents That I Gustave Siebeck of the county of Siskiyou and State of california have this day taken up and claimed under the laws of the state of california, the following described water claim Two hundred inches of water taken out of willow Creek on the East side of said creek some forty Rods or thereabouts North of the NORTH line of the land now claimed under the possessory laws of the state of California by Gustave Siebeck and run in a southeasterly direction to the above described line. I claim this water for ranching and mining purposes this 12th day of May A.D. 1871 ditch completed May 11 1871.
Source Photos
From: Modoc County Water Claims Book 2
— Page 313
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Notes: SISKIYOU TRANSCRIPTION — Gustave Siebeck (unusual surname — German origin). 200 inches from Willow Creek for RANCHING AND MINING — dual purpose including mining (rare in Surprise Valley claims). Ditch completed May 11, 1871, claim filed next day May 12. Siskiyou Book 4 (four) of Mining claims page 152. Certified by Alice M. Young, July 22, 1918. E.C. BONNER still requesting transcriptions — Aug 3, 1918. Note: M.R. Ruble also claimed 200 inches from Willow Creek (page 317) in May 1864 — 7 years EARLIER! Same creek, different claimants.