of the company's charter and privilege is the Ottoman govern-
ment. The interests of the Company are specially protected
by the German Imperial governement, through a resident
diplomatic agent at Constantinople, the amount of german
capital engaged in the undertaking being so enormous,
and the enterprise itself, from an economic point of view
of such vast importance to . The construction
of the line will develop the immense natural resources
of ancient Mesopotamia, the valleys of the Euphrates and
Tigris, and it is of the utmost importance to the enter-
prise that those regions should be settled by an intelligent
and enterprising class of people. One of the directors of the
company, who is also a director of the Deutsche Bank at
, and a valued friend of mine, has asked me the
question, whether I thought it advisable to invite
the attention of the authorities of your church to the grand
opportunity offered here for the formation of mass-settle-
ments, and requested me to write this confidential letter
to you. My friend is Dr. jur. , of Berlin. He
has been my guest in this country in 1883, when I was
The Equitable Trust Company of .
OFFICERS:
, PRESIDENT.
, VICE-PRESIDENT.
C. B. SCHMIDT, SECRETARY.
H. W. YATES, TREASURER.
SAVAGE, MORRIS & DAVIS, COUNSEL.
DIRECTORS:
A. E. TOUZALIN, .
I. T. BURR, BOSTON
LEWIS S. REED, OMAHA.
H. W. YATES, OMAHA
JAMES W. SAVAGE, OMAHA
C. B. SCHMIDT, OMAHA
JNO. A. HORBACH, OMAHA
Omaha, Neb. 1890
of the company's charter and privilege is the Ottoman government. The interests of the Company are specially protected
by the German Imperial Governement, through a resident
diplomatic agent at Constantinople, the amount of german
capital engaged in the undertaking being so enormous,
and the enterprise itself, from an economic point of view
and of such vast importance to . The construction
of the line will develop the immense natural resources
of ancient Mesopotamia, the valleys of the Euphrates and
Tigris, and it isof the utmost importance to the enterprise that those regions should be settled by an intelligent
and enterprising class of people. One of the directors of the
company, who is also a director of the Deutsche Bank at
, and a valued friend of mine, has asked me the
question, whether I thought it advisable to invite
the attention of the authorities of your church to the grand
opportunity offered here for the formation of mass-settlements, and requested me to write this confidential letter
to you. My friend is Dr. jur. , of Berlin. He
has been my guest in this country in 1883, when I was