Salt Lake Telegram | 1902-02-04 | Page 3 | Colony of Blacks Planned for Iowa

COLONY OF OP BLACKS PLANNED FOR FOB IOWA IOWA HASTINGS la Ta Feb eb feb 4 A A negro from southern Alabama has been en in inthis inthis this county for the past st three days getting options on large tracts of the finest driest rest land in Mills county in the he bottom in White Cloud to township town ton n ship five miles east of ot Tabor The object object object ob ob- ob- ob of buying so large larg a quantity of ot land kind is to colonize the negroes for tor farming and anal gardening grening purposes to place th their lr products on he the Omaha markets market I He has ha been given the option opton on several several sev sev- sevi i eral cral of the finest farms in the county and for some Rome of the land is paying as high as an acre These people are arel l locating near ner Tabor for the purpose of giving their children the advantage of ot the college located there