APPENDIX TO THE COUNTER CASE OF THE UNITED STATES BEFORE THE TRIBUNAL CONVENED AT LONDON UNDER THE PROVISIONS OF THE TREATY BETWEEN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA AND GREAT BRITAIN CONCLUDED JANUARY 24, 1903. WASHINGTON: GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE. 1903. CONTENTS OF THE APPENDIX. Page. Papers relating to the lease of the lisière to the Hudson's Bay Company 1 49 Papers relating to the boundary on and navigation of the Stikine River 53 87 The Coast Survey reports sent to the British Government in 1883... 88 89 Diplomatic correspondence subsequent to the adjournment of the Joint High 124 Extracts from debates in the Canadian Parliament.. 164 Correspondence between U. S. Coast Survey and the Canadian minister of the 174 PAPERS RELATING TO THE LEASE OF THE LISIÈRE TO THE HUDSON'S BAY COMPANY. Report of Governor to Board of Directors of the Russian American Company, May 6, 1832, No. 181. [Translation.] Schooner "Cadboro" of the Hudson's Bay Company arrived here on April 26 with Mr. Ogden, a shareholder of this company, who established a new settlement at Naas (Observatory Inlet) and is the chief manager of the company's establishments to the north of the Columbia River. The true purpose of his visit was to have an interview with me and to persuade me that there was nothing in the information diffused by the Americans that the Hudson's Bay Company trades liquor, guns and powder for furs and intends to establish a settlement within our boundary at Stachin. Mr. Ogden declared to me that with regard to a settlement at Stachin he had been telling on purpose to the Americans about this intention, and that as to trading in articles prohibited by the Convention he, Ogden, assured me that neither guns nor powder had been furnished to the Kolosh. As to liquors he had begun to sell some this year and reported this to his chiefs, not seeing any other means of crowding the Americans out of the straits. For it is the second year that he pays the Kolosh for furs twice and three times as much as the Americans (two and three blankets per river beaver), thus losing considerable sums, but sees that allowing the Americans to pay in liquors and fire arms, it is not possible to hope to crowd them out of this competition, and he therefore resolved in spite of the prohibition of the Convention, to pay in liquors, however abstaining so far from selling the natives firearms. I have the honor to report this circumstance to the Board of Directors and leave for it to decide if it is possible for us alone to keep to the strict fulfilment of the Convention when the British and Americans break it without any limitations and thus reap benefits of which we are deprived. Mr. Ogden injured the Americans quite considerably this year in the straits in the following way. Having always on hand at the new settlement of Naas and on the Columbia river a large supply of merchandise for one year in advance (the yearly expenditure of blankets is calculated at Naas at 8,000 and on the Columbia river 35,000) he sends three vessels to the straits to such localities where the Americans are putting in and begins to pay twice and three times as much as the |
