Ice treaty?
This caught my interest:
According to a contract which had been signed, Russian America had to deliver a certain amount of ice to San Francisco at a fixed price.
Anyone here have any idea if this was with an American company or with the Hudson's Bay Company, which maintained a post at San Francisco, though perhaps not this late (their post was at Yerba Buena (town) and had been founded in 1830.  The reason I propose the HBC is that there was a treaty - more than one - between the RAC and the HBC on the latter's provisions of dairy and meat and vegetables to Russian America; maybe there was a reciprocal agreement.  I can't imagine what treaty'' the RAC/Russia would have had with the United States that could have signed between 1824 and 1859....unless this has something to do with US support during the Crimean War?  Or??  If it's a contract with a private company (other than the HBC), then "treaty" is not the right word to use.  if it's a corollary to the Anglo-Russian Convention of 1839 or the earlier arrangements with either the Pugets Sound Agricultural Company  or some grandfathered contract re the agreement with Mexico over Fort Ross, somebody please explain....