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Mr.. Slacum tells US that "the Indians are taught
TO believe that no vessel but the company's ships
Is allowed to trade in the river, and most Of them
are afraid to sell their skins but at Vancouve, or
Fort Georgefe Of this have positive evidence from
the Indians themselves, as well as from the re-
mark made by the chief trader Mcleod, aboard
the Llama' in BakssBay.'


As soon as the Company learned that the Ame-
r'cans had established trading post at Fort Hall
just west of the Rocky Mountains. and hundreds
of miles South of the Columbia, they dispatch
cd party to counteract their operations by build.
ing fort at the mouth of Big Wood River, not
far beloWAhem. No where can an American at
tempt to trade with the natives without meeting
competitors in the agents of that company.


To be continmed.1