In Annixter's case it was thirty.
"And--and the company promised to sell to me, to--to all of us," gasped old Broderson, "at TWO DOLLARS AND A HALF an acre." It was not alone the ranchers immediately around Bonneville who would be plundered by this move on the part of the Railroad.

The "alternate section" system applied throughout all the San Joaquin.

By striking at the Bonneville ranchers a terrible precedent was established.

Of the crowd of guests in the harness room alone, nearly every man was affected, every man menaced with ruin.

All of a million acres was suddenly involved.
Then suddenly the tempest burst.