The Green Forest tribune., 1910-09-23
PLATING THE TOWN
DRAFT FTSMAN AT WORK ON A
 MAP OF GREEN FOREST.
Rare Opportunity Afforded to Correct Some Badly CongIomerated Land
 Descriptions.

The local office of the Carroll County Abstract Go. has undertaken the task of making a reliable plat of Green For est, including the various additions.
 An experienced draftsman Riley Meador of Eureka Springs is here working on the proposition and not withstanding some very perplexing puzzles he is making fair headway in the undertaking.
 There are certain portions of the town in which the land titles are in a ''mess," and it is going to take some effort and expense to get them in con- prehensive shape, so that the owner will know that he has paid his taxes on his own land, or that he really owns the land he thinks he does.
 The various additions that have been officially plated and recorded are in good shape. People who own lots in either of the Blasingame additions, the Phillips & Russell addition, Grim s additions 1 and 2, the Crescent addi- ton, the Oliver addition and the Orig inal Survey are in good shape, but the Harbert addition is to considerable extent piece of guess-work. Only l portions of it have ever been made a matter of record, and so many compli- cations have been found in parts of it that it is impossible to make a compre- hensive abstract. That portion of it lying between Springfield street and Phillips avenue south of the public square is all in very bad shape. Some deeds have described it as lots and blocks and others have the description by metes and bounds in such a shape there is scarcely no telling "heads nor tails. -
 Another experimentation is that sec tion of town bounded by Springfield street on the east, Main street on the north, Thorn street or Crescent addi- tion on the west and the Blasingame first addition on the south. No effort has ever been made to plat this portion of the town. It has been surveyed, of course, but no record has been made of it.
 A very hard proposition also ia tic tract of land lying between Main street and the Oliver addition, embracing the properties of E. Wise, Oscar Grim, James Walker, c. F. Headman and w. M. Burkett. These properties all straddle forty line, making the metes and bounds descriptions difficult and hard to understand. This was once plated as Buell's addition but was never recorded. These property own CTS, or part of them, have decided to have the Buell. addition revived ano made official, so that it will be describ- ed by lots and blocks on the tax books and in deeds in the future
 The row of buildings on the Pickens land on the north side of Cherry street also presents some complications that ought to be strengthened out by plat by all means. It would be worth 2 great deal to the property owners ir this portion of the town to have ii officially plated while it can be done without more trouble. It should be done for the purpose of assessment ii nothing else.
 There is also a tier ot lots on the west side of North Springfield street street off the Everett old tract that are in as bad shape as land descrip- tions can handily get in.
 The only way that these matters car now be fixed is to draw a plat that will conform to the deeds and describe by lots and blocks and have them recorded and the land thus placed upon the tax books. Right now this could be done for less expense than it ever can in the future, while a draftsman is employed and has the layout of the town ir mind
 If property owners will get busy anc bring in their deeds at once, it is esti mated that the cost of plating, re, cording, and furnishing each property owner with plat of the proposed ad ditions will not exceed dollar eacf and it would certainly be worth many times that to each property owner who is not in regularly located addition.
 It is the intention of the abstract company to refuse to undertake to make abstracts in the future to proper. ty ir town that is not described by lots and blocks. It is task that carries too much trouble and responsibility fol the price for which abstract work is usually done.
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