The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1844-12-10 00:00:00

COLUMBIA RIVER FUR COMPANY.

EUROPEAN BRANCH, 72, BOLD-STREET.

DEPOT, FORT VANCOUVER, OREGON OR COLUMBIA

RIVER, NORTH AMERICA.

THE Managers of this Company beg most respectfully
to render to the Public their grateful thanks for the
unqualified patronage they have received since opening
this Establishment, and, in calling attention to their
PRESENT IMMENSE STOCK URS,
which comprises every variety for w this River, one
of the greatest in America, is so tly celebrated, trust
that their future exertions m meet the same liberal
reward past energies have se ed..
The mere title of the `Columbia Fur Company"
carries with it no mo weight than that of any other
company ; but the mense resources of this gigantic
stream, the length of which is 1560 miles, connecting by
its own waters, or immediate branches, the vast districts
of Austria, Colo, Canoe Camp, the Rogky Mountains,
Flat Brow, Chippeway, Pembunco, and tEe principle Fur
climates, as well as the Lakes, and the ready transit for
skins procured by the inhabitants, who, as well as the
native India tribes, principally gain their subsistence by
capturing fur•producing animals, enables this Company
to offer

FURS
AT PRICES THAT CANNOT BE EQUALLED,
(When Quality is consulledd
BY ANY OTHER HOUSE IN THE KINGDOM.
The Oregon or Columbia River districts produces a
greater variety of Furs than any other in America. Sid-
ney Hall, Esq., when treating of zoology, in his able
introduction to Black's General Atlas, says ,of this dis-
trict—" Its most distinguished characteristic is the number
of its Rodentia. amounting to no less than 53 well ascer-
tained species." The skins all of which are of excellent
quality.
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As this House has only been recently opened, it must
be obvious to the public that their made-up Furs are all
OF THE LATEST STYLES OF FASHION.
OW Observe the number....
BOLD-STREET.
London workmen are employed to execute all alterations.

SHEFFIELD, ASHTON-UNDER-LYNE, AND
MANCHESTER RAILWAY.
CALL FOR THE THIRTEENTH NSTALMENT
ON THE ORIGINAL £11: SHARES.
THE DIRECTORS of the : • EFFIELD, ASH-
TON-UNDER-LYNE and MANCHESTER
RAILWAY having resolved • make a CALL, under the
provisions of their Act o Incorporation, for an IN-
STALMENT of FIVE ' • UNDS PER SHARE upon
the ORIGINAL F. E HUNDRED POUND
SHARES, NOTICE HEREBY GIVEN, that the several
Proprietors of tho: -Shares in the Capital Stock of . the
said Company, a required to pay the said Call, or Sum
of Five t'oun s, upon each of their said respective
Shares, on or before the second day of January next, to
one of the Company's undermentioned Bankers, at their
respective Banking Houses, namely :
At Sheffield .. To the Sheffield and Retford Bank.
Manchester The Union Bank of Manchester.
Liverpool.. Messrs. Leyland and Bullins.
London.... Messrs. Glyn, Halifax, and Co.
London.... The London and Westminster Bank.
Interest, after the rate of Five Pounds per Centum per
Annum, will be charged on all Calls which shall be in
arrear after the said second day of January, and during
such arrear Shareholders will lose their claim to Interest
upon any previous payments of Capital.
The Directors take this opportunity of stating, that it
is their intention to make further Calls upon the £lOO
Shares, until those shares shall be paid up in full.
By order of the Directors,
JOHN PLATFORD, Clerk and Secretary.
Manchester, 4th, 1844.