THE COLUMBIA RIVER— THE 
HUDSON’S BAY COMPANY 
ORT HALL lies on the left bank of 
FE the Snake River, between the mouths 
of the Blackfoot and Portneuf Creeks. 
It was built by Capt. Wyeth, and sold 
by him some years later, when he left 
the mountains, to the Hudson’s Bay 
Company, in whose possession it has remained up 
to the present. It is the most southern fort which 
this English company has pushed into the Oregon 
Territory of the United States. The fort lies hard 
by the river, and is built in a square of about eighty 
by eighty feet, suggestive of barracks. The style is 
essentially that of Fort Laramie, except that the outer 
walls, ten to twelve feet high, are constructed in 
this case out of partly baked brick instead of wood. 
A small cannon is in the courtyard. The fort owns 
many horses and six cows. The whole garrison con; 
sisted of six men; among them two Sandwich Island- 
ers and a German. The clerks of the fort were Mr. 
