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Lled Fort Williams, on Wappatoo Island, at the mouth of the Wallamut.
This was to be the head factory of his company; whence they were
to carry on their fishing and trapping

operations, and their trade with the interior; and where they were to
receive and dispatch their annual ship. The plan of Mr. Wyeth appears
to have been well concerted. He had observed that the Rocky Mountain
Fur Company, the bands of free trappers, as well as the
Indians west of the mountains, depended for their supplies upon goods
brought
from St. Louis; which, in consequence of the expenses and risks of a