Site of First Posted Water Notice by Will S. Green

The Glenn-Colusa Irrigation District's main pump station stands in view of the bronze, still drawing on the claim Will S. Green posted on an oak here on December 18, 1883: 500,000 miner's inches of the Sacramento for the west side of the valley, one of the river's earliest and largest water rights. The district cast the plaque in 1954 and closed it with Exodus 4:9. The verse runs on past the bronze, and the poured water becomes blood upon the dry land. The bronze also promotes Green, U.S. Surveyor General for California, to the whole United States.

What the plaque says

William Semple Green 1832 - 1905 Arrived, via Panama route, San Francisco, Oct. 10, 1849 Arrived Colusi County, July 6, 1850 Ferry boat captain, mail carrier, surveyor, editor, writer, legislator, Surveyor General of the United States, California State Treasurer, irrigationist friend of man. On Dec. 18, 1883 posted the first water notice on an oak tree on the west bank of the Sacramento River immediately east of this spot for the diversion of 500,000 miner's inches of water for the irrigation of lands on the west side of the Sacramento Valley. Dedicated by Colusi County Historical Society. Donated and erected by Glenn-Colusa Irrigation District May 15, 1954 "............thou shalt take of the water of the river and pour it upon the dry land." Exodus 4:9 California Registered Historical Landmark No. 831

Where it stands

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