Staunton spectator, and general advertiser. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 183?-1849, 1843-10-19
srAUNTON, VIRGINIA, THURSDAY, OCTOBER g. 1913.
POWER OF THE HUDSON BAY COMPANY.

I Stew among us are aware of the cxtraordin.
AIRY resources aud wide-spreadiug plans of tins
remarkable society, which has exercised, in
ITS barren domains, steady, cnterprising pol
icy, not interior TO that of the East India Com
pany itself; and now, in Mr.. Farnham's Ian
guage, occupies and controls more than one
nlnth OF the soil of the globe. The great bus
mess oi tins company is the fur trade, OF
which 1t Is now nearly the sole monopolist
throughout all the choisest iiir-bearing reyions
oil North America, with the exception Of the
portion occupied by the Russians. The bulk
oi ITS empire is secured TO it by charter bu,
ii is IN possession of Oregon rs debatable land.
under stipulations between Britain and the
United States. The stockholders are British ::
the management of lis affairs in America is
carried on by "partners," so called, but, in
point of fact, agents paid by proportion of
the net income of the company These are
scattered III various posts over the whole ter
ritory between iudson's Bay and the Pacific
The Governor General resides i'm York Fac
tory, on the former. They are chiefly Scots
men; and greater proportion of shrewdness.
daring, and commercial activity, is probably
not to be found in the same number of heads
IN the world. Before 1920, this BODY carried
ON fierce contest with the Northwest Com
pany, attended with hideous battles of Indians
and hals-breeds, and the burning and sacking
each others posts. In 1921, the two COM
panics were consolidated since which, thew
have had no British rival, and have exerted
all their policy to reprcss interference on the
part OF the Americans. In this they seem to
have thoroughly succeeded
The attempts Of the Americans to establish
a fur trade of their own, one by one have end
ed in disappointment. Their own trappcrs
and hunters prefer the markets of the compa-
ny. lis agents seek out the Americans-so. al
least, they complainant bid them and I'M
derscll them, in every point TO which they
can penetrate. The Pacific Fur Company
the scheme ofJohn Jacob Aston, comment
GRATED by Washington Irving-lhosc of Cap
tam Wyeth, and many other American adven-
lures, have failed against the strength and per-
severance OF the old monopoly. lis traders
supply the demand, such as il is. both of In
dams and white hunters, for European goods.
over all the northwest; for they are said to
sell twenty or thirty per cent. cheaper than
American goods; Sand there seems a certain
ty," says MIR. Farnllam, ''that the Hudson Bay
Company will engross the entire trade of the
Worth Pacific, as it has that of the Oregon.
SO powerful is this body OH the continent, that
it has actually established kind of game law
over region twice as large as Europe. requ-
! iating the quantity OF trapping to be done IN
particular districts, and uniformly diiniuislauo
1T whenever the returns show deficiency in
ITS production OF animals. Ii keeps both saw
ages and whites in order, by putting into Sc
rIouS practice the threat of exclusive DEALING
Mr. farnham met with an American i'm Ore
gon, who informed him that IN consequence
OF some offence taken, very unjus,lv. of
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