The Green Forest tribune., 1901-03-16
Eureka Springs Doings.

me EufeKa springs I1meS- Echo of last Saturday says:
 Dr. c. A. Reid, proprietor of the Magnetic Springs hotel in this city, has started the Angora goat industry in Carroll county, and expects it to result very profitable both for himself and the farmers. His proposition is to furnish the goats to respon- sible farmers throughout the county, who are to raise them on shares. This is an ideal section for the Angora goat, which is by long adaptation to a mountain ous region, unable to thrive properly in smooth country.
 Put the goat on reckless prairie and it's feet grow so long that the animal can hardly walk. It must have a limestone ledge or cliff to whet off these growing hoofs. The goat does not need much food except the bulbs and bark of bushes and small trees. With good rock pile and field of sassafras sprouts the Angora goat can get along without corn or fodder. It will clean up a briar patch or hazel thicket when pressed by hunger.
 That is one of the values of the long-haired goat-it makes the grubbing hoe almost a useless farming tool.
 Mohair sells from 20 to 60 cents a pound. A fleece of an Angora goat yields from four to six pounds. The fineness of the hair is the test of the value of the fleece. In the higher bred goats 1000 hairs can be laid side by side in the space of an inch.
 In this section there are vast tracts of rough land that refuse to submit to the ordinary meth ods of farming. On these rocky steeps and bald knobs the Angora goat will grow fat the year round. It will be an easy life for the goat raiser. He can make money without sowing or reaping or gathering into barns, for the wild shrubbery of the mountain creeks will feed the sure footed climbers in Decem- Der as we'll as in June, and the rocky mountain sides will keep the hoofs of the animals trim med down to the proper standard.
 Will Elliott, who has occupied the position of draughtsman with Chief Engineer Lee in the offices of the St. Louis 6 North Arkansas railway in this city, will leave tomorrow for his home in St. Louis, having completed his work here for the present. MT. Elliott is an excellent artist in his line, and has made many new friends here who will regret to see him go. The departure of MT. Elliott is taken as indicat- ing that Chief Engineer Lee, who has supervised all the work for the construction company so far, does not expect to be further employed on the line after it is completed to Harrison, and that if the line is extended beyond that point in the near future it will be done by other parties than those who have built the line so far. MT. Lee will leave here sometime in April, as soon as the road is turned over by the construction company to the railway organization, and will go to St. Louis.
 The indications are that J. B. Colt & Son Company, who have constructed the line to Harrison, will not get the contract for building further than that point. However, it is reasonably certain that the railroad contemplates extending further with little de- lay, and the grading at Harrison is done on the St. Joe survey as far as the creek, showing that the direction to be taken is southeast along the route indi- cated by us some days ago.