The Illinois free trader. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1840-1841, 1841-02-19

remain on hand this year.
Stock consists of about 900 head @
neat cattle, 700 hogs, 200 sheep, 40 t
500 horses, and 40 yoke of working oxen
There is large threshng machine, dis
tillery (not at present in operation), an,
a grist-miIl In short, the farm is abund
antly supplied with all the requisite uten
sils for much larger establishment; an,
1t will be much increased The ensuing
year, A thriving orchard is also planted
the apple, ounce, pear, and the crap,
grow well.
Irade, S'c.-A large ship arrives annu
ally from London, and discharges at Van
couver; cargo, chiefly coarse wooIlens
cloths, baizes, and blankets hardware
cutlery, calicoes, cottons, and cotton
handkerchlcis tea, sugar, coffee, and
cocoa; tobacco, soap, beads, guns, pow,
der, lead, rum, playing cards, boots, shoes,
ready-made clothing, &c, &C.; besides
every description of sea stores. canvas,
cordage, paints, oils, chains and chain
cable, anchors, &C., to rcit the compa-
ny's ships, that remain on the coast.
These arc the ship Neredc, the brig Liza
ma, the schooner Cadborough, and sloop
Broughton; tic steamboat Beaver, of one
hundred and fifty tons, two engines OF
thirty horse power, built in London last
year. These vessels are we'll armed and
manned the crews are engaged in Eng
land, to serve five years, at 90 per month
for seamcn. The London ship, with the
annual supply, usually arrives in the Co.
lumbia in carly spring, discharges, and
takes a cargo of lumber to the Sandwich
Islands; returns in August to receive the
furs that are brought to the depot Fort
Vancouver once year, from the interior,
ria the Columbia river, from the Snake
country, and from the American rendcz-
vous west of the Rocky Mountains, and
from as far south as st. Francisco, in
California Whilst one of the compa-
ny's vessels brings in the collections of
turs and peltries made at the different de-
pots along the coast at the north, the
steamboat is now being employed in navi-
eating those magnificent straits from Juan
de Fuca to Stickern. Immense quantities
of furs, sea otter, beaver, martin, and sa-
bic, can be collected along the shores Of
these bays and inlets. The chief traders
at Narquallah, in 47o 3O,, Fort Laanglay,
in l00 so, Fort Mclaughlin, in SO l6,,
Fort Simpson, in so 40' north, purchase
all the furs and peltries from the indians
in their vicinity and as far as New Gale
donia, in the interior, and supply them
with guns, powder, lead, tobacco, beads.
&C., all of which supplies are taken from
the principal depot at Fort Vancouver.
An express, as it is called, goes out in
March, annually, from Vancouver, and
ascends the Columbia nine hundred miles
in bateauy. One of the chief factors, or
chief traders, takes charge of the property,
and conveys to York factory, on ilud-
sons Bay, the annual returns Of the bust
ness conducted by the Hudson's Bay
company west Of the Rocky Mountains,
in the Columbia district. This party
likewise conveys TO the different forts
along the route, goods suitable to the In
dian trade; other parties take up supplies,
as they may be required, to Wallawallah,
two hundred and fifty miles above Van
couycr; to Colvlle, six hundred miles
above; to the fort at the junction of
Lewis river, seven hundred miles above [;
and to the south 10 the Fort McRoys, on
the river Umpqua, in latitude 43o 50'
north ; and, last year 1886 chief trader
Mcleod took up to the American rcndez-
vous, in about latitude 43 north, large
supply of British manufactures. This
assemblage OF American trappcrs and
hunters takes place annually on the west
ern side Of the Rocky Mountains, gcncr-
ally in the month of July, and amounts to
from four hundred and fifty to five humid
red men, who bring the result Of their
years labor to sell to the American fur
traders. These persons purchase their
supplies for the traPpers at 81. Louis ;
though, after being subject to the duties
on these articles, Chiefly of Brilieh man
ulacurc,) they transport their goods about
one thousand four hundred miles by land,
to sell to citizens of the United States
within our acknowledged lines of terrific
ny. Last year, they met powerful OPP
ponent, in the agent of this foreign mon
opoly, chief trader Mcleod. who could
well afford to underscll the American fu
trader on his oWR gr0Uad, - first, by
having the advantage of water commune
cation on the Columbia and i.cwis's riv
ers for distance Of seYcn or Omit hnnd