The accounts of one man showed that for a long period he had so disbursed from his own pocket an average of thirty dollars a month. His salary was sixty dollars.
Kyacks—pack sacks slung either side the pack saddle.
Extraordinary as it may seem to the modern reader, this sentiment—or this ignorance—was at that time sincerely entertained by men as influential, as powerful, and as closely interested in water power as Baker is here depicted.
"Nester"—Western term meaning squatters, small settlers—generally illegally such.
Pronounced Hone-kal.