The Green Forest tribune., 1910-04-15
BOOST GREEN FOREST
LET US ALL HANG UP OUR HAM,
 MFRS AND TALK BUSINESS
Give the Real Estate Men a Chance to Do Something and Then Watch
 Them Get Results.

There will undoubtedly come some good results to the community on ac- count of the late special edition of The Tribune, but whether such ends will not be counteracted by the action on the part of some of our people remains to be seen.
 It is poorly worth while to bring prospective investors here and then engage in free-for-all fight as to who is to do the selling. It is a fact well known to every one who has observed along this line, that more people have been driven away from Green Forest by this sort of business than have ever invested.
 If you want to scare prospective buyer to death, let half dozen proper ty owners go to chasing him around, and it is dollars to doughnuts that they drive him out of town with bad im- pression of the country. He thinks there must needs be something wrong with a community where seemingly everybody wants no sell-and there is. There is at least serious lacking in the matter of employment of business methods.
 Leave the matter of selling to the real estate man whose agency has brought the prospective buyer here. It is only fair to do this. Don't be a buttinsky." Such people are about on par with the knocker.
 Hustling real estate men are the first and most important element in the building up of town or com munity, and they must have the CO., operation and patronage of the people in order to accomplish anything. If you have anything to sell, list it with real estate man, who will have twenty chances to your one to sell, then keep your hands off.
 What has built up the Panhandle country? Real estate men have done it single-handed and alone. They have made a large element of people of money believe that the sand deserts of Texas can be made to blossom as the rose. People have gone there with money and populated the country and are still going. Real estate has kept advancing, offering profits, and many people have made money, yet "roses" have hardly budded; nor does any one known that they will ever blossom to any considerable extent They won t need to, for that matter, as long as people with money keep croWding in making success out of success.
 If real estate men can do this out of the desert of the Panhandle, how much more could they do with section so profusely blessed with natural advan- tages as the country surrounding Green 1 Forest.
 The proper effort, backed by be- coming spirit and cooperation of the people, would build city of 5000 people of Green Forest in five years; but we are not hoping for anything as good as that at this time We would by far rather see the country built up by in- ducing a desirable class of immigra- tion to come in and buy up small tracts and go at farming by scientific methods.
 Every person induced to come here and locate is a genuine asset to the country. Not only do we get the benefit of whatever industry that the newcomer may be able to introduce on account of his ideas on improved methods in farming, but all the means he brings is that much clear gain to the country.
 There is nothing that will serve as a greater barrier to the progress of the country than over-priced real estate. Land must be offered so as to bear some resemblance of cheapness if people, are induced to buy. People who have based their prices upon the hope of oil and gas had as well let their tempera- ture relapse and drop down into the bounds of reason. The chances are toe remote now to hope for much along 1 this line. You cannot afford to assume the attitude of a speculator with no greater capital than few acres of land.
 Let us forget the oil and gas pro- position and develop the gold mine we have upon top of the ground.
 The indications are that we are to harvest bumper fruit crop this year, with good crops the country will be at it's best in the present state of develop, ment and this will be the opportune time for results in advertising the country.
 Let everybody join hands and boost for six months and watch the results. You will feel just as well over the eff fort if you do not profit by. The Tribune editor is not induced to write this article in the interest of any special interests or because we may have little something to do with the real estate business. The article is directed solely in the interests of the | to,,,,, opd oop,p,1pity