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Claim Details
- Filed
- January 22, 1877
- Recorded
- January 22, 1877
- Recorder
- N. FitzGerald
- Type
- Appropriation
Water Source
- Source
- East Creek and Lake Fork Creek
- Size
- 200.0 miner's inches
- Purpose
- Irrigation
- Diversion
- Ditch
Use Location
Jess Valley, unsurveyed Jess survey tract
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.
Uncertain Fields
- Township: land unsurveyed, no T/R/S given
- Size Inches: 100 inches from each of two creeks (200 total)
Transcription
Know all men by these presents, that we D.A. Jess, J.A. Jess and Jonathan Jess, have this day claimed and appropriated for the purposes of irrigation one hundred inches measured under a four inch pressure of the waters each of the two creeks situated in Jess Valley in the County of Modoc, State of California, and commonly known as the East and Lake Fork creeks. To further establish this our said water right, we propose to divert the waters of East creek to the extent of one hundred inches as aforesaid by means of a ditch, each about 12 inches deep and 18 inches wide, taken out at the mouth of East Creek Canyon.
Source Photos
From: Modoc County Water Claims Book 1
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Notes: Jess Valley. Three claimants. 100 inches from each of two creeks (East Creek and Lake Fork Creek). East Creek: ditch at mouth of canyon, 12 in deep, 18 in wide, conveying water westerly. Lake Fork Creek: similar ditches above wagon road crossing, conveying water westerly. Land: unsurveyed Jess survey tract. Dated January 20, 1877.