. History of Oregon; the growth of an American state. and twenty-five men re-turned in the summer and built Fort Langley uponthe site selected in the winter. In October of the same year the occupants of thenew fort were surprised to see a well-equipped expe-dition coming down the Fraser. It proved to be noless a person than Sir George Simpson, the governor;traveling with Chief Factor Malcolm McLeod and aDr. Hamlyn. He had come by the Athabasca pass,and after reaching Fort Kamloops determined torisk the passage of the Fraser and visit the forts onthe coast, rather than cross to the Columbia and
. History of Oregon; the growth of an American state. and twenty-five men re-turned in the summer and built Fort Langley uponthe site selected in the winter. In October of the same year the occupants of thenew fort were surprised to see a well-equipped expe-dition coming down the Fraser. It proved to be noless a person than Sir George Simpson, the governor;traveling with Chief Factor Malcolm McLeod and aDr. Hamlyn. He had come by the Athabasca pass,and after reaching Fort Kamloops determined torisk the passage of the Fraser and visit the forts onthe coast, rather than cross to the Columbia and takethat route to Vancouver. Through the mountainshe found the Fraser verv violent; but met with noaccident. Simpson was a very active man, of mod-erate stature, but athletic, and capable of great personally supervised the entire business of theHudsons Bay Company in North America, andbrought this up to an efficiency such as only a modernrailway company might equal. His duties, however,were magisterial rather than industrial, as the busi-. FRANCIS EKMAT1NGERA Factor of I ho Hudsons Bay Company. AN AMERICAN STATE 373 ness not only had to be conducted, but the territoryhad to be governed, by his company. He returned animmense income to the English stockholders; sev-eral million dollars per year. Fort St. James, onLake Stuart, was made the chief trading point in theNew Caledonia district, and Francis Ermatinger, ofKamloops, was made chief factor. Fort Nisqually, at the head of Puget Sound, on abroad plain commanding a wide prospect, was builtand equipped for a permanent and important fort,as it subsequently became. The Umpqua countrywas also occupied, and in the course of time a regu-as the Taoutche Tesse, of Alexander McKenzie, andlar annual expedition was made to California, trad-ing for peltries. At the head of this expedition wasusually Michael La Framboise. The journey wasmade entirely on horseback, and the trappers, themost of whom had native women as wives, took t
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