Leigh S. J. Hunt and Booker T.
Washington at Work on Big Colonisation Project.
From tae "New York Herstp."
Tacoma, Wash, Sunday.—Leigh S. J. Hunt, a wealthy mining operator in Corea, and former resident of this State, and Booker 'f. Wachington have joined hands in a colonisation undertaking.
Details of their plans are supplied in letters received recently by friends of Mr. Hunt. ° Their projects include reclamation of several hundred jousand acres tributary to the river Nile in Africa and the cultivation of these lands by negroes who are to be taken from the United Hunt is now in a watering-place in Germany. He will meet Booker T. Washington in October in Africa, probably in Cairo, Egypt, and together they will perfect plans for the colonisation of thous sands of negroes. Preliminary details were discussed at a meeting in New York Inst month, before Mr. Hunt sailed for Our Letters from Mr. Hunt to close personal friends state that President Roosevelt has approved of the plans suggested by Mfr.
unt.
Mr. Hunt lost his fortune on Puget Sound in the panic of 1893, Ho then went to Corea and secured " concession for developing vold mines, which "re said to be proving among the richest mines in the world. "he Corean Emperor is his partner in ownership.
Mr. Booker T. Washington has since disclaimed any connection with the schementtributed to Mr. Leigh Hunt—Ep.
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