The Green Forest tribune., 1910-10-07
TITLES ARE MUDDLED ABSTRACT OFFICE SUSPENDS WORK ON TOWN PLAT Too Many Complications and Too Much Expense Involved in
 the Enterprise.

Work has been suspended by the Car roll County Abstract Co. on the job of making q complete plat of Green Forest and the task may be abandoned altogether.
 The conditions as found by Craftsman Meador and Surveyor Phillips are such that the expense of strengthening them out is too great for the amount of good the company could hope to gain by merely being the owner of areliable map, of the town.
 The undertaking in the first place is one that of right belongs to the town and especially the people whose titles are clouded and rendered ques- tionable on account of guess-work and blunders of the past.
 The town has been laid off by piece meals, each addition being practically independent of others. Flats have been made of some portions of the town and left unrecorded, corners lost and things "messed" in general.
 All that part of town between Second street (running across the south end of the square) and the Phillips & Russell addition, embracing the residence of c. L. Scott, the Bank of Green Forest, the Crockett Hotel Sneed's feed barn and several valuable residences has once been plated but no record was ever made of it. Notwithstanding this fact, deeds have been made con- veying some of this property on the lot and block description.
 The properties on both the east and west side of the square are muddled greatly because of the fact that sever al of the buildings have been set by guess cross-Wise of lots as they were originally laid out. Some of the own CTS of these buildings pay tax on parts of as many as three lots. The Abstract Co.'S effort to unravel this puzzle for the tax collector has brought into eX- istence revised plat of Harbert's ad- dition, which makes each building stand upon it's individual lot and each corner definitely located. There IS yet no assurance, however, that it will be made official The property o--'s=5 must defray the expenses if 1t does. Time would cure many serious defects in the titles to some of our most valu- abl properties if this plat should be pushed to completion. The council is ready to approve it when asked to do So
 The tract embracing the Methodist and Christian churches, the Star Hotel and several pieces of residence proper ties is in worse than bad fix. The tax receipts are based solely upon imagination in this part of town, and the properties on the north side ot 1 Springfield street west of John Ram sey's corner and the west side of Springfield street north of the Ramsey corner as well as all that in the Pick ems row north of Cherry street, are in not one whit better shape. Deeds are confusing on some of these properties in the extreme A deed to one of the best residences in the Pickens row To- cates the property on the west side of Springfield street in Will Sneed's field. A dozen other instances could be sight ed.
 In the light of conditions as exposed by this investigation and the indiffer- ence manifested by the property own CTS, no attempt will be made in the future to abstract any of these prop critics by the Carroll County Abstract Go.