Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1882-08-25
Oregon "reminiscences.
The Red Riv l. Col my 10 Puget sound.

-on, OoNer3br vi TIE HunS III Say
Cutnpauy Territory, then mlAIny au
overland journey round the world,
visited the Company : ESTABLISHMENT,
ind lie settitintul, III Oregon tern
."ry. On the 1t OF S4io.mber ac-
colnpanied by Gov. james Douglas.
Inict Ftcsor Hu,i>oh's Bay Com
an, he took leave Of Capt. Char.ra
Nllhes and he OH -er5 OF the L dlied
SAFE exploring expedition, 'h"n Mt
| Fort hhcnuver, engaged II. aur
| rcyinc the Columbia ilv"t S.r
George WAS starting for Fort Ms
| j"allv, where the stealAtr E'urFT,
Capt. Wm. Mcneil, awaited 10 con-
tey him to Sltaa Forry.elsht houis
IN Hudson's Bay Co.'S balteau
bfouSh, the party TO the Cowli,z farms
of the Puget sound \ sii.ultura A.
soclation Fl re l. Sir Gcur-e Simp
SONS pictuIe of Cow ~ and Nea-
qpaliy III the Fail OF 1871:
g Between the CJwu Z river and
Puget Sound, i distance Of about
sixty miles, tae country, which /,
VA cred by many streatns and lakes,
CONSISTS of an Attenuation of pla ns
and beit- Of wu.d. Ii Is well al apt
ed both for tllacc and for pa>turage,
possessing Il genial climate, COOL
soil. excellent umb.r, water power,
| a,ur.il cieliInSs and Il seaport, and
/ that, too, within Reach of more thIu
I Il Az
this tract was explored, II few years
,So, the Company established two
farms npon 1t, whica were subse-
| Iuently transferred to the Puget
Sound Agricultural AsIrcitlon,
formed under the Company uus!l-
ceS, with the vie" OF producing wheat,
wool, hides all; tallow, for expor.a.
non. On the Cowll;Z Farm, there
were already about 4 Thousand acres
vi land under p uuIb, beside, large
d,iry, an extensive park for horse,
and sock; and the crops this sea
son had amounted to eight or nlne
thousand bushels of "heaf, four
Thousand OF oats, with dLe proper
tlon OF barley, potatoes, etc. Tho
other farm Was on the shores of Pa
get Sound, (Ne>qually P.ain>) and
~ It's soil Was found to be better iii
ed for pasiuia2e than ii.l.ae, il had
been approp' lated almost exclusively
20 The tiucks and herds, 81 that now
with only two hundred ucr. S Of cul
waited land, ii possessed s.X thou,-
aud sheep, twelve hundred cattle,
oesldes horses, pigs. etc. In al
Ill ION to these two farms, ia re
vas Catholic NJ, sion, with about
ne hundred and sky acres under
the plough. There were also IL few
Canadian settlers, retired servant, OF
he Hudsons Bay Company; and
II was to this same nelS b ,rhooJ
hat the emigran.s from Red river
were winding their way"
The purpose of that immigration
was the occupancy, the colonization
Of the region. 1t was au earnest
exhibit OF British policy but more
especially of the Hudson's Bay Com
paby 10 establish British agricultural
colonies IN Oregon north of the Co.
'unUla river the better to assure re-
tfntt0n of that region. 1t had be-
come manifest that the ultimate set.
tIement of the question of bound
airy between the United States aud
Great Britain miSh. depend upon
occupancy Of the soil by actual set
tiers. The Company engaged in
this scheme of coionization, o. cause
by Its license of trade it was res
lricted from acquiring aud holding
lands. its rights We're merely POSSESS
DRY. Ii Was more tenant for 4
ERIN of Yeas, moi settler. A. an
lnducement to settleWant each head
of family had been qua: ant.ed, on ar
rlviug, the use aud increase of
fifteen head of cows, fifteen
ewes, the necessary work Oxen or
horses, house and BAN accommoda
tons. The coionists we've fir, III
1.-THE Red River Territory which had
been granted in 1911 by the Hud-
sons Bay Company to Lord Selklrk.
The cesslon was extended to en-
brace the portions of the Hudson
Bay Territory capable OF cultivation.
1t extended from the sources of L Ike
Winnipeg to the plains of the Las
katchewan, aud from the 49th paral
lei northward 10 the headwaters
of the Assiuiboine river, and was
called Asslniboia. The population
consisted of Canadians, Orkneymen
and Scotchmen and their. mixed des-
cendents. The half-breeds of every
stock generally derive their abor
lSlnal blood from the swampy crees,
who are allowed to be the most
comely Of all the native tribes, and
who have during the lapse OF two
or three ages picked up somethin.
of civilization at the Companys old
est posts"
| On the 9Th June, 1S41, twenty
ihree families under The leadership
"f Capt. James Sinclair a clerk IN
he Hudson's Bay Company service,
lief: N ,ni:ob., Rel River Territory.
for Puget Sound. They had started
twenty eight days earlier than S.r
George Simpson, and lie aud ms
title party over took them on the
sixteenth day out from Fort Garry
says he: These emiyrants con
sisted OF asrlcuiturists aud Others
principally ia ives OF Red river set.
tlement. There were twenty three
familes, the heads beng Young and
active. though few of them were
advanced IL life, more particularly
one poor woman upwards of seventy
five years of age, who was following
after her son TO his new home.
This venerable wan lerer Was ma
tive of Saskatchewan, of which she
, III fact bore the name. She had been
: absent from thi the land of her
birth, for eighteen yeurs. and IN