Puget Sound Agricultural Company
(Sir James Douglas era) Organized, 129; agricultural
interests of Hudson's Bay Company handed over to, 129; its farms,
129-130; checkered career, 130; McLoughlin first manager, 130; disputes
with United States, 130-131; claims settled by commission, 131; Douglas
succeeds McLoughlin as manager, 132; epidemic of fever and ague follows
first turning of soil about Fort Vancouver, 132; land claims on
Vancouver Island, 198; dispute with Langford, 199. =Bib.=: Bancroft,
History of the North-West Coast.