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.
Modoc, Graham Tutle. Water right. KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS; That I Graham Tuttle, of Surprise Valley, in the county of Siskiyou, State of california have on the 17th day of March A.D. 1873, located and claimed Fifty Inches, (to be measured under a four inch pressure) of the water flowing in the stream known as milk Ranch Creek, situated in said Surprise Valley County of Siskiyou for purpose of irrigation on the North East quarter (NE 1/4) of section 33, in township 42 North and Range 16 east Mount Diablo Meridian.
Notes: SISKIYOU TRANSCRIPTION — Graham Tuttle (misspelled 'Tutle' in header). 50 inches from Milk Ranch Creek, Surprise Valley. NE 1/4 Sec 33, T42N R16E. Ditch 12 inches wide, 10 inches deep, about 1 mile long NE to land. CRITICAL DETAIL: 'the same ditch constructed by James W. Dickerson in the summer of the year A.D. 1871' — Tuttle is using SOMEONE ELSE'S ditch! Dickerson built it 1871, Tuttle claims it 1873. Succession of water infrastructure. Siskiyou Book 1 of Water Rights page 113. Certified by Alice M. Young, Oct 10, 1919. By LAURA PARK, Deputy Recorder (new name in Siskiyou). Requested by MODOC ABSTRACT CO. (title/abstract company — suggesting land title research, professional transcription request).