SOURCE OF ST. PETEr's RIVER. 



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will, it is to be hoped, continue on amicable terms with 

 them. 



The following statement of the amount of furs formerly 

 packed up by the British companies, and produced alto- 

 gether by the trade on Red River and its tributaries, has 

 been communicated to us by the gentlemen of the Colum- 

 bia Fur Company. As this statement is restricted to the 

 value of the fur trade on the South side of the boundary 

 line, we think there can be no impropriety in publishing 

 it. All that relates to the British territories, and that we 

 have been able to collect from our own observations, or 

 which has been kindly communicated to us in the course 

 of conversations with the officers of the Hudson's Bay 

 Company, we have no wish to publish, and we would con- 

 sider it highly censurable so to do, but as this relates to a 

 trade in which they can have no further interest, no ob- 

 jection can we trust be taken to it. 



Names. No. of packs. No. of skins, or Value of pack. Total. 



Carried over 525 



; 46,950 



* This item we find stated in our notes at $ 450 per pack, but we ap- 

 prehend that the statement is very much overrated, although it is said 

 to refer to the finest quality. Six dollars per skin is probably a fair price. 



