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Show NEV COTTON FIELD . Sahara Desert May Be Used (or Growing Staple Product. Two New Yorkers Head Eapedltlon to Explore Famous Africsn Oatls Espect Conflict with Tourtgt and Othtr Trlbet. London. To discover fresh lands for cotton growing, which they believe are to be found In the fertile oases of the Sahara desert, Allison V. Armour and Jordan L. Molt of New York are headed now for the heart of Africa with one of the largest and best equipped expeditions that ever entered the Itirk continent. Nearly ZOO white men, Including many European soldiers of fortune, have been engaged to command the army of blacks with whose aid the two Americans hope to fight their way through the Tourega and the wild, cruel, nomadic tribes whose country Is still almost the least known territory terri-tory in Africa. Armour and Molt, It Is understood, derided on this dangerous undertaking undertak-ing after hearing of the success of Isidore Morse, John McKadden, "the Kngllah cotton king," and of several others Interested in cotton, on getting from the Itallnn government enormous enor-mous concessions of land In Krythrea. southeastern Kgypt, where is some of the finest cotton growing land in the world. The land obtained by Morse, McKadden McKad-den and their associates covert millions mil-lions of acres, extending from the lied Hra west to a line drawn through Kas-sala, Kas-sala, parallel with the Hid Hea coast line. The acreage la as large as that of the original grant obtained by the chartered company In llhodesla. 8o well have Morse and McKadden guarded the secret of their tremendous tremen-dous grant that even now It has not reached the ears of many persons outside out-side of the Italian government. Morse left London five days ago for Home to settle further details In connection with his concession; his pluns are progressing pro-gressing to put the cotton-raising scheme in active operation. The German emperor, whom he has often entertained aboard his yacht, Is a close friend of Allison V. Armour and formerly was his clnssmste at Heidelberg. The emperor Is deeply In-J teresled In the outcome of the undertaking. under-taking. The expedition will lund at Tripoli and, according to present plans, will strike Inland with (be object of reselling resell-ing Ghat, the chief city of the Tou-reg Tou-reg country, 600 miles soulh by west from Tripoli. As 1.10 miles of the northern part of the Huh urn must be traversed to reach tihat, the expedition expedi-tion will be transported by camels from a point 100 miles east of Tainus-sanln. Tainus-sanln. From tihat the great caravan will go southeasterly, keeping well to the sollhwest side of the Tarso mountain moun-tain range, toward Lake Tchad, in which neighborhood ure some of the most fertile osses In the whole vast desert. Houth of Lake Tchad the expedition will enter the donialu of the sultan of llornu, on whoso good odlces Armour and Mott count. They exject tiie sultan sul-tan to provide them with a military escort. |