RICHARD B. WHITTAKER. Water right. Know all men by these presents; That I, Richard B. Whittaker have on the 1st. day of June A.D 1870, located and claimed three hundred (300) inches of the water flowing in Smiths Creek situated in Surprise Valley in Siskiyou County, State of California, to be measured under a four inch pressure for purpose of irrigation on the following described lands.
Notes: SISKIYOU COUNTY TRANSCRIPTION — original dated June 1, 1870. Originally filed in Siskiyou County Jan 25, 1873 by J.V. Bownser, recorded by John V. Brown (Recorder), Deputy F.R. Hogeboom. Re-recorded July 29, 1873. Certified by Eugene Dowling, Siskiyou County Recorder, from book 1 of water Rights page 101, on August 1, 1908. Transcribed to Modoc at request of Modoc Abstract Co Aug 5, 1908. Surprise Valley — pre-dates Modoc County creation (1874).