CHAPTER IX. 



OFFICERS' ALLOWANCES. 



To readers of H-T-T descriptions of modes 

 of living in by-gone days will, no doubt, be as 

 interesting as actual hunting or trapping. I 

 therefore submit a reminiscence of days in the 

 early sixties, gone never to return. 



Transport then to the far inland posts was 

 so tedious and costly that it was impossible to 

 freight heavy stuff so far away, and the em- 

 ployees of the company had to live on what the 

 company in which they were stationed produced. 

 However, a scale of allowances of a few delica- 

 cies were allowed, and these were made up every 

 year at the depot of each district, and were for 

 one year. The laborers or common people about 

 the post got nothing in the way of imported pro- 

 visions, except when at the hard work of trip- 

 ping. The officers' scale was as follows, be he 

 a married man or a single man, it made no dif- 

 ference. Their several grades were as follows: 



Chief Factor, Chief Trader, Chief Clerk, Ap- 

 prentice Clerk, Post Master. 



A Post Master did not mean a master of a 



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