[or-roots] Water Related Story

[ffarner at coinet.com]

Just a story:

About thirty years ago my wife, of the time, and I were looking for a
small farm to buy.  We liked a piece near Horton, Oregon, about sixty
acres. The bulk of the property lay to the east of a small creek that ran
north to south.  Well, when I went to the courthouse to research the piece
I was rather shocked to see the legal description took [I think] eight or
nine pages!  I found an old timer in town and inquired as to what maybe
was the cause of this.  He explained to me that the original settler there
had homesteaded the place did not trust big business.  Timber companies in
particular.  So, when he had to sell off the steep, non-farmable land he
made dead certain those timber barons didn't get any of HIS farm land.
The boundary to the west of the creek [and therefore not farmable anyway
due to the lay of the land] read something like this; 'from the three foot
stake running northwest about thirty feet to the pointed rock that is one
and a half feet above the ground, thence running fifteen feet to the cedar
tree that lightning has split,...........  Anyway, you get the picture. 
That useless piece of ground had over three hundred way points in its half
mile run.  But, it certainly made sure no timber baron could get to his
creek for water.  Of course, above and below his place they could.  We
didn't buy the property for different reasons.

Fred F

> Sue,
>
> Thank you! I have been in the Jackson Co. Watermaster's office many times,
> but never thought to ask them my question. That would have been a good
> time to ask. Silly me <g>
>   ----- Original Message -----
>   From: Sue Steward
>   To: or-roots mail list
>   Sent: Wednesday, April 15, 2009 1:43 PM
>   Subject: Re: [or-roots] Water location posted
>
>
>   Nancy, I have a friend who works in the Jackson County Watermaster's
> office.  I'll try to contact her tonight and see if she can give us any
> info.  I tried to call her at the office but she is in a class today.
>
>   Sue
>     ----- Original Message -----
>     From: Nancy Lee Adams
>     To: or-roots at listsmart.osl.state.or.us
>     Sent: Wednesday, April 15, 2009 11:46 AM
>     Subject: [or-roots] Water location posted
>
>
>     Hi everyone -
>     I was wondering if anyone knew how a farmer/miner who filed a water
> location in Jackson Co., OR. would post it on his land like our water
> location document reads 'posted on the east bank of said creek', and
> starts on the boundary line, In 1902. Does anyone know how it might be
> posted? Would it be a piece of paper nailed to a tree, a pile of
> rocks, or? Any ideas? I imagine what ever it was is all gone after
> about 107 years, with logging, forest fires & such. I know where the
> water location is, but I would like to hike around it & see if I can
> find something.
>
>     Thanks, Nancy
>
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