The Green Forest tribune., 1901-11-30
IS A COMMERCIAL CENTER.
Green Forest in the Middle of
 Great Trade Territory.

tIIdU oll d0OOOllO OL IliV otIIl ottA terminal being temporarily loeat- ed there, Green Forest is the greatest commercial center upon the line of the new railroad. It is the largest distributing point of any town through which the St. l.. & N. A. road passes. More goods are received at the Green Forest station for country points than at any other town in the county. Being the greatest dis tributing point it necessarily fol- lows that it is the greatest ship ping point; thus our commercial supremacy is firmly established. Commercially speaking, it is bound to be admitted that Green Forest enjoys an enviable posi- .tion; it is the,leader of the coun- ty, and is gaining rapidly all the time.
 Naturally Green Forest has a trade territory that is about t5 miles east and west and days travel either north or south, but there is no line, real or imaginary, that bounds the trade limits of Green Forest. Hundreds of people come to Green Forest to do business who are nearer other railroad points than Green For est, and this infringement upon the natural trade territory of other points is becoming more pronounced every day.
 The completion of the railroad has brought many new customers to Green Forest, but this matt ter of trade territory expansion is no new thing. It has been in progress for some years. The accessibility of the town and the advantages in trade advertised by our merchants have attracted travel this way until it may now truthfully be said that all roads lead to Green Forest.
 The depressing effect of the drought has crippled the trade of the Green Forest merchants won- derfully, yet the fact still remains that no commercial prestige to the town has been lost on account
 of adverse conditions, but as far
 as the trade limits of our territory is concerned they have contin- ued to expand.
 That Green Forest is thus hap oily situated today is due in no small degree to the enterprise of our merchants in the past. some of whom have pursued a liberal advertising policy, and have offered inducements whi ch are sufficient to cause people to come from distance to spend their money here. An honest advertisement that is calculated to bring trade to any firm is help ful to the whole town. The ob- ject is to get the people to come to see, the hustling merchant can always do the rest.
 The future commercial prestige of Green Forest is indeed bright, but like the soil that is expected to produce grain, it must be cul- tivated, and if our merchants are equal to the opportunity now of- fered them, they may still do much to increase the limits of their trade territory. A state of lethargy would not only mean a sacrifice of growth but loss of prestige that has already been gained. The advertising point be pushed more vigorous ly than it is at the present time. There is nothing that can stand in the way of the making of 8 small city of Green Forest in a few years except the lack of push on the part of our business men and the development of the fruit industry on the part of the land owners, both of which conditions are highly promising at this time.