The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1867-10-12

the imprudence Of Thorn, produced con
iict which ended in the Indians putting to
death 23 men, or all on board excopt the In.
dian interpreter, Lewis, the clerk. and four
men who had taken refuge in tho cabin, and
who, making their way to the shore, were
massacrod by tho snyages. Lewis, with tho
interpreter, alone remained ON board, and
he meditated n severe vengance, Tho Indi.
ans having left the ship, he succeeded In
cnticing them again ON board, when hc fired
the magazine, and it's explosion caused the
immediate death oil himself and more than
100 of the indians tho interpreter, however,
was thrown from the main.chains into the
water unhurt, /" ard was saved by the natives,
and reached Astoria two years after.
The rivalry Of the two companies contin.
ued for more than thirty years, and culmi.
mated in open war between tho two Compa.
anies. Tho loss Of many lives, and the ruin
Of nearly NIL the old pioneer partners of the
North West Co., and finally the consolida.
ton OF both companies in one, under the
name Of the Hon. Hudson Bay Company,
IN 1921. The veteran McKinzie. Of the
n. w. Co., who, in 1889. pushed his exten.
alse explorations by the Sluea Lake and Me.
kinzie river, TO the Arctic Ocean. was, in
1902, tho FIRST white man to cross tho Rocky
Mountains, Lat. 54'; reached tho Pacific
Ocean, Lat. $40, in September. Capt. Gray
having entered the mouth Of the Columbia
in the month Of May, four months before,
and bad given this great West to bis country,
and the name Of his good chip 10 the river.
which name . will flow with the waters of
the bold riyar "a long M the grass grows or
water runs in tho valleys Of the Rocky
Mountains Fourteen years aftcr--she year
.aN IL Il
Simeon Frazier, Of the N, W. Co., estah.
lished trading post on Frazier's Lake. in
New Caledonia the first trading post West
of the Rocky Mountains. The Americans
were next on the ground, with q trading post
on the bead waters Of Bitterroot river. esiab.
lished by the Missouri Fur Co, in ls08.-i
John Jacob Astor's atupendous enterprise
By sea and by land. commenced in 1911 nj
Astoria, and tho four other points already
named. backed by his immense wealth, and
pushed forward with almost superlnsnan en-
ergy. But the iron will Of tLia great man
had the strange apathy Of his own govern.
ment; tho trcaehcry of his own partners.
the war 0f 1912 and even the elements tol
contend with. and had. ike all before him,
left the arm Of Jeh0Eab out &c his reckoning
and Astor failed. sadly failed to make Il per
maisnt footing for the American commerce
on this coast. The Missouri and the Amer
lean Fur Companies. under tho guidance of
tho veteran moun,aineers. Ashley and Henry
subIitt. Fitzpatrick and <Bridger, and other
experienced mountain rangers from the wear
1924 and cn and finally Cant. Bonneville
and Capt; Wycth. rs late as 80 and "a. all.
all put forth stapendous and repeated ciforls,
at an enormous expense Of money and men,
TO secure, under tho joint occupancy Of the
country, the United States share of the rich
fur trade. md to light up the bl,ze Of n sec.
ond North American Republic on the Pacific
shores