The Alaska citizen., 1910-08-06

'iuiH@ Ht Ol sue Hdu lOSt anything through the collapse of the Hunt schemes. School teachers, wage earners, friends of the early days who had taken Hunts advice on in vestments that failed, were reim- bursed with interest. Seattle people received $700,0O0, and Eastern credi- tors. after the passing of the seven years Hunt had spent in the Ori- ent. received S60OO00.
 The Hunt dream. constantly be- fore him in the Orient, was to own again the leading newspaper in the Northwest Repurchase of the Post lntelligencer was out of the question, so MT. Hunt announced that he would start a full-grown newspaper, make it one of the best in the coun- try, and he offered advertisers free space until his publication had the biggest circulation in the state He ordered ground purchased for building that was to be the home of this newspaper, and he made ar engagements for printing presses and linotypes. Called to San Francisco by business. his health again broke, and his physicians told him he could not live unless he gave up business for a couple of years. They recom- mendcd the Nile as the place for the rest cure.
 While house-boating in Upper Egypt the idea germinated in Hunts mind to impound the waters of the Nile and irrigate the Soudan wastes for the cultivation of cotton.
 It cant be done," the English and the Egyptian officials told him.
 "Why?' he asked.
 In the first place, the Soudanese are a worthless, idle population. They will not answer for your labor And then the Nile must give it's flow first to lowe~ Egypt When that is water ed there isn't enough left for the Soudan."
 Il will bring the dissatisfied Amer ican negro back to his old home" Hunt replied, and settle colonies of Southern Europes surplus population along the upper Nile. There is plenty of water in the river at cer- tain seasons; why not take it out then, store it, and liberate it when it is wanted?"
 But the Egyptians and the British still shook their heads. Anyhow, Hunt went ahead, bought a big tract of land from the government, irri- gated 10000 acres as an experiment, and demonstrated the feasibility of his idea Then he sold out the scheme to some of the very men who had scolfed the loudest in the begin ming. He became a close friend of Khedive, Lord Cromer, and the other dignitaries of the land of the py- ramids.
 While in Africa Hunt traVersed the White Nile, and penetrated much of the country later visited by Col. Roose- welt, to whom Hunt was introduced by General Clarkson, his old friend.
 With his health improved, Hunt re- turned to America and bought country place in Virginia, near Wash ington. Long a collector of gems, the story is tCld that at a dinner in the White House he exhibited pocket full of uncut stones, among them one which was particularly fine and which Mrs Roosevelt admired greatly.
 Please accept it as a souvenir" the guest insisted, when he saw that his hostess admired it. "Once l lost it, and offered five hundred pounds for its return. It was hand ed back to me mysteriously in an envelope" He was greatly pleased that the wife of the President con- sented to add it to her collection.
 Mrs. Hunt lives most of the time in Paris, where she is educating her daughter Helen. The only son, Henry, is a young mining engineer in Idaho. Mr. Hunt makes his head quarters at the Union Club, in New York City His latest projects are said to lie in the direction of South America-Human Life.
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