[or-roots] Water Related Story

[Nancy Lee Adams]

Fred -

I love your story as that's the way I read some of the legal descriptions 
were, but yours story is really detailed <g> In the old days the 
boundary/land description would read from one blazed tree to another. We had 
blazed trees to show the boundary on our farm in Jackson Co. but a forest 
fire came right up to the farm & burned those trees. Now the neighbor has 
done a modern survey & those blazed trees mean nothing anyways. Plus we lost 
a good 10 to12 feet from this modern survey.

Nancy
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From: <ffarner at coinet.com>
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Sent: Wednesday, April 15, 2009 6:18 PM
Subject: [or-roots] Water Related Story


> 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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