The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1905-06-21
PLAN TO COLONRE
PART OF SOUDAN.
Leigh Hunt Would Trans.
port Colored Men There.
AID TO CULTIVATE COTTON
Lays His Big Scheme Before the
President and Finds an At
tentive Listener.

Leigh Hunt, multi-millionaire. native
OF Indiana, citizen of the world, friend
ana intimate of kings, emperors and
presidents, and in many ways one of
the most interesting citizens of America.
iunshed recently at the White House and
Is reported to have had a most interest
Ing discussion with the President on
some of his great schemes of empire.
MI Hunt, though yet on the cheerful
side of fifty, has organized and conduct
ed immense enterprises in three eonti-
nents He has made tho great fortunes.
one OF which he lost, and is now wealth.
Ter than ever before. The RothschiIds
FAMILY fssconcerned in his Korean gold
mining interests, and King Edward him
sell mas taken the liveliest interest in,
me huge scheme OF cotton raising in the
Soudan. to which Mr. Hunt is now de-
voting himself.
His Career Romantic.
Leigh Hunts career is a romance sug-
gestive in its every page of Aladdin ard
MS lamp. A farmer boy in Indiana. he
became scholar; went to Iowa and
was president of the State Agricultural
Sotiege al Ames:. moved next TO the Pa
cinc northwest and became one of the
foremost of the organizers of the great
series OF enterprises which opened that
country. He owned the Seattle Post-In-
teihEencer, built railroads, organized
financial institutions, was Interested in
steamship lines. conducted immense reaJ
estate enterprises. and became in
niaaI,Neiousiy short time many times a
millionaire. q
Attracted by his great and spectacular
success his friends in the Fast and
Middle West invested great Sums of
, miol.ev IN enterprises in the far North
. wesI Ihen came the crash of 1893, and
t - e unit fortune was swept away. Mr.
II unit found himself owing instead of
owning millions.
His Health in Peril.
Advised by physicians that he was in
danger of consumption Mr.. Hunt left
Tor the Orient. and in China conducted
an effort to secure some mining conces-
sions Failing there he went to Korea
learned of great possibilities in the gold
region OF the peninsula, secured intro
auction at court and became a fayorite
of the Emperor. Through his influence
he acquired mining rights of fabulous
value.
Again on the-road to fortune. he went
TO England. interested the Rothschiids,
raised money and went back To dayeIor,
ms Korean possessions.
IN the course OF a few years this
oenieS OIL nnance and industry ~as
AGAIN worth millions. He returned to .
attic and announced that every dollar he
owed there would be paid with interest
In few weeks he had paid out 81, 75D,-
wv TO people who had lost through in
or because of confidence in his leader
ship. He paid them with interest In
many cases be hunted up the records
of losses sustained by map who had in
vested. not on his adyict, but merely
because they believed anything In which
he was concerned would succeed.
one man in Iowa received a check for
no less than SSo.veo. fenunerating him
for a loss In connection with which he
had no shadow of either legal or moral
claim against Mr.. Hunt.
Then Went to Egypt.
His record in Seattle cleared UP thus
magnificently. Mr. Hunt. again in poor
health, started on a trip to Egypt.
Travelling up the Nile. the same COM
prehensiye imagination that had en-
abIed him to grasp the possibilities of
empire in the new Northwest and
again in eastern Asia, now pictured to
him the potentiaIities of the eastern
Soudan. Not since the Pharaohs Ind
that region been made to contribute to
the worlds wealth. Hunt saw his op-
portunities- He believed II could be
made to produce a great cotton sup
Forthwith he went to England. inter-
ested the cotton manufacturers of that
country. secured presentation to the
king. whom he interested profoundly,
and in short secured the cooperation
OF the greatest factors In English po-
lticai and financial affairs
To this new empire builder, who pro-
poses to do for North Africa what Ce-
C4 Rhodes did for South Africa, was
granted a domain equal to a great
American State. With it went the
right TO dam the Nile, to construct ir-
Tig4tfOn works ADEQUATE In tho r1padC
of such vast reclamation scheme
and charter enabling him to finance
ii all.
Wants Colored Men,
The plan is to colonize the domain
with educated American colored men
who know all about cotton culture. For
these Mr.. Hunt is appealing to the ne
gro colleges Of the South. Since his
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