Erpor!s IN 1891.

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On the contrary, the North American
Fur Company have but few posts on the
west side of the Rocky Mountains, and
these are but feeble. Its agents procure
all their furs themselves, trading but little
with the Indians, who are opposed to
them, being instigated by the policy of
the Hudson's Bay Company. Three or
four hundred hunters and trappers remain
in that country, who repair during every
summer to the places sofrendezvous, where
they meet the caravans from the United
States. Wherever the Hudson's Bay
Company plants its iron footsteps, there
the American trade is sure to decline.
The principal places of rendezvous for
the American traders are on Green river,
a branch of the Colorado at the foot of
the Rocky Mountains, and at Pierrea
Hole. A portion Of the American fur
traders are also stationed around the great
lakes, at the posts formerly occupied by
the old French and English companies
and large quantity Of fish is annually
taken in the waters of Lake Superior,
which are shipped, together with the furs
collected, to New York. The precise
amount of furs collected annually by the
American Fur Company, we are not able
to state but it is doubtless great, notwith-
standing all the disadvantages under
which they labor from the sometimes
open, but more generally covert opposi-
ton Of the great rival association.


The Hudson's Bay Company appears
always to have opposed the colonization
of the territory stretching along the Pacl-