sentences:  The BC Express Company also hired Captain Owen Forrester Browne to be the master of the "BX" as he was the most experienced upper Fraser River pilot.Captain Browne worked with Alexander Watson throughout the design and construction phases of the "BX".Watson purchased the "BX's" boiler, engines and other equipment from the Chicago Marine Ironworks Company, who were informed that the "BX's" construction site at Soda Creek was away from the railway at Ashcroft and therefore the equipment would have to be hauled by horse drawn freighters for that distance.