Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1882-08-04

building l. occupied Icy the chief, III
which also is the saia or me>S-roorn.
In front of the steps oi this build
ing are two long tweuty-four pound
er ship guns, and Two short merchant
ship canonade5, twelve OF eigh-
teen pounlers. On the left, at right
angles, are the quarters Of other
ciei KS, ttaierS, etc. Those who nave
married the Canadian ia!f-cas:es gen
orally live IN their quarters, or only
come TO the general table when 1t
suits. 1t is not little strange IN a
community so long established, that
The women should still be almost to-
tally unacquainied with the language
of their husbands.
q" La he rear of the tort Il an ex-
cellent kitchen Garden and orchard
occupying about the same space as
the fort, Ohr.e hundred yards on its
sides, and behind this a large track
ofcultivated land aud extensive store
houses, ba: n, etc, and abundance
of grain iii stacks. To the westward
are situated, without the palisades,
at "a distance OF IL quarter of Il mile,
the hospital and houses of the Can
a,iian establishment, forming com
pete village. All Is apparently de-
fencele,s, although when turned out,
every man will be found with Il well
tried rife and couiean de cI,ass", or
other efficient means of defence; and
their partner: are efficient helplnates,
i'll the literal sense of the phrase.
"As to the appellation Of Fort
Vancouver it is clearly misnomer;
no Fort Vancouver exists; it is merely
the mercantile post of the Hudson 5
Bay Company. In the neighbor-
hood about two miles down the
river. they have a very extensive
dairy, numerous cattle, sheep, pigs,
goats, etc, and about three or four
miles up the stream, water-mills for
grinding, saving planks. and an es-
Enlistment for curing salmon, the
two latter objects forming the prir-
cipal export to the Sandwich Is
| lands.
"Scme fev years since the COM
pany determined on forming settle
ments on the rich lands situated on
the Wallamet and other rivers,
and providing for their retired serv-
ants by allotting them farms, and
further aiding them by supplies of
cattle, etc. That on the Wailamet
was field too inviting for mission
AIRY enthusiasm to overlook; but ill.,
stead of selecting British subject
to afford them spiritual assistance,
recourse was had to Americans, u
course pre- ynant with evil consequent
ces, and particularly in the political
squabbie pending, as will be seen by
the result. No sooner had the
American and his allies fairly
squatted," (Which they deem TAX
ing possession of TIE country than
they invited their brethren to Join
them, and called ON the American
Government for laws and protection
This position has not only become
tie bone of contention which has
again aroused the Americans, but
from the fact of containing many of
the Old servants of the company un-
accustomed to restraint and whose
first appeal is to their trusty rifle, is
very likely to cause some trouble.
they are now loud in their claim of
right to soil, and a colony of Ameri-
can settlers was en- route in the
plains when we quilted. On the
other river, Cowlitz, they have two
missionaries, one Protestant, the
other Roman Catholic; but AS this is
the Company's farm and on the north
side, l believe that there is no pres
ell: fear of intrusion.
The territory has at length, by
dint of British capital and persever-
ance attained such importance that
America doubtless is anxious to
open the field to her subjects; and
having her eyes open to what has
been virtually lost in an Over-reach-
ing attempt by the Aston Company,
to obtain a value by negotiation, for
that which in few hours would have
been public British property by cap
tire, she attempts to disavow the
legality of the transfer. This rem
ders the matter still worse, as,
had the capture taken place, they
might with some plea of propriety,
have looked tor It's restoration at
the peace. But if bona .fde pur-
chasers are at this late date, to be
married in their speculation, the ul-
| innate consequence of which they
doubtless anticipated, then must we
bid farewell 10 good faith in mercan.
tile transactions; form no other light
than that of plain transfer of pri-
yate property can it honestly be-
contemplated. The possession of the
trading post at Fort Vancouver mot
the Fort Astoria purchased from the
Americans by the British COM
any cannot in any way be questioned
in reference to the Columbia terri.
tory. That boundary line must first
be defined before America ventures
to claim any point of the headquar-
tiers of the Hudson Bay Company.
The company usually kept two
migratory trapping parties of fifty
men each; one between the Columbia
and the bay of San Francisco, near
the coast, the other in the interior
about the head-waters of the Sacra-
mento. The vessels employed by
the company are as follows: one
steamer and four sailing vessels:
Bark Columbia, $40 tons, 6guns, 81 men
Vancouver 32i - E " 81 :.
| Ship Nereide, 2S3 :" 10 26 "
Sch'r Cadboro, II " 4 80 II "
Str Beaver, 109 5 " 20 "
The population in the employ of
the company, including natives, etc.
varies from five hundred and fifty
to six hundred men and officers; but
not more than ten native Indians are
permanently employed. The hunt