. Klondike : the Chicago record's book for gold seekers. oung Scotchman of great ability, was given control in. < BOOK FOR GOLD-SEEKERS. 301 North America with the title of g^overnor-in-chief ofRuperts land, l-or forty years he managed the affairs ofthe consolidated companies, winning wealth and his government the company prospered, until, ini860, it was operating 155 establishments with twenty-five chief factors in charge and employing twenty-eightchief traders, 152 clerks and 1,200 other employes, be-sides many thousand Indians. In 1869, at the demand of the Dominion of Canada
. Klondike : the Chicago record's book for gold seekers. oung Scotchman of great ability, was given control in. < BOOK FOR GOLD-SEEKERS. 301 North America with the title of g^overnor-in-chief ofRuperts land, l-or forty years he managed the affairs ofthe consolidated companies, winning wealth and his government the company prospered, until, ini860, it was operating 155 establishments with twenty-five chief factors in charge and employing twenty-eightchief traders, 152 clerks and 1,200 other employes, be-sides many thousand Indians. In 1869, at the demand of the Dominion of Canada,the company surrendered its monopoly of the northwestin consideration of the payment of £300,000 sterling, andthe transfer to it of one-twentieth of the land within thefertile belt, besides 50,000 acres immediately surroundingits posts. Thus the Hudsons Bay company surrenderedits monopoly to begin its latter day career as an immensecommercial corporation. In all the vast territory the fur trade of which is inthe hands of the Hudsons Bay company there are onlya few real forts. These are surrounded with st
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