I, Paul N A Tholl, file on all the water coming out of the Canyon and running through forty acres of my claim, located E 1/2 NE 1/4, section 30, Township 42 N, Range 16 E. M.D. embraced in Homestead Application No. 07013 made at the land office at Susanville California, receivers receipt No. 693340.
Notes: WRITTEN ON INSURANCE COMPANY LETTERHEAD — The Penn Mutual Life Insurance Company, Philadelphia. Tholl & Albee, General Agents, Odd Fellows Building, Reno, Nevada. Tholl was an insurance agent filing a homestead claim in Modoc County from Reno! Claims ALL water — no quantity specified. Homestead Application No. 07013 at Susanville land office — formal federal homestead. Witness M.M. Albee (Tholl's business partner at the insurance agency). Dated Oct 21, 1912. Filed Nov 12. Very informal document — no standard appropriation language. T42N R16E is in Surprise Valley.