high confidence
Claim Details
- Filed
- April 02, 1921
- Recorded
- April 02, 1921
- Recorder
- T.H. Ballard
- Type
- Appropriation
Water Source
- Source
- Willow Creek
- Size
- 200.0 miner's inches
- Purpose
- Ranching And Milling
- Diversion
- Ditch
Use Location
Land claimed under possessory laws by M.R. Ruble, 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
WATER CLAIM. KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS, That I M.R. Ruble of the county of Siskiyou & 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 10 Rods North of the North line of the land now claimed under the Possessory of the state of California By M.R. Ruble & run in a southeasterly direction to the above described line, I claim this water for ranching & Milling purposes, this May 5th 1864, ditch completed May 25th 1864.
Source Photos
From: Modoc County Water Claims Book 2
— Page 318
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Notes: SISKIYOU TRANSCRIPTION — M.R. Ruble. 200 inches from Willow Creek for RANCHING & MILLING. Ditch completed May 25, 1864 — one of EARLIEST water uses in the record (alongside Seheke spring 1864 and Eyster April 28, 1864). WATER RIGHT ASSIGNMENT included: Sept 17, 1866 — 'I assign the within water claim to P. Paterson & Robert McConnaughy & Brother' — EARLIEST recorded water rights TRANSFER in the book! Filed/recorded March 16, 1865 in Siskiyou Book 3, quartz/ditch mining/water claims p.45. C.A. Rogers, Recorder. Requested by MRS. McCONNAUGHY April 2, 1921 — WOMAN preserving family water rights, likely descendant of Robert McConnaughy. Same Willow Creek as Gustave Siebeck (page 312, 1871) — Ruble was there 7 YEARS earlier.