The Green Forest tribune., 1912-03-29
HISTORY OF
 CARROLL COUNTY
Com piled by the Goodspeed Publish ing Go. and Was First Published
 in the Year 1898.
TOWNS AND:VILLAGES
EUREKA SPRINGS.


 extends from Seligman, Mo-, to Flu reka Springs, distance of IS. 50 miles. The grade from Seligman, for some distance, is 138 feet to the mile The general direction of the line is north west and southeast. There is down grade thirteen miles to White River from the northwest, and six miles from the southeast. A two-span Howe truss iron bridge crosses the White River.
 The road was chartered February 27, 1882, and opened to travel February 1, 1883. It was built by the Western Construction Company, of Little Rock, Ark. The building of an extension to Harrison, Ark, 1926 miles, is in con- temptation.
 The officers are as follows; Pre- sident and manager, Powell Clayton; vice-president and treasurer, Logan H. Root; secretary, A. H. Foote; directors, R. c. Kerens, St. Louis, Mo-; Logan II Roots, Little Rock, Ark. E. w. Taylor, Jefferson, Texas; Nathan Herr mann, N. r.; P. K. Roots, Little Rock, Ark; C. H. Smith, St. Louis, Mo-; Powell.Clayton, F. M, Richard son, A. +. Foote, Eureka Springs.
 The operations for the year ending December 31, 1887, are here enume- rated: Train mileage (passenger, ,505; freight 13,885), 27,390 miles. Passengers carried, 27, 783; tons freight moved, 24,900. Earnings: Passenger, $35, 011.52; freight, $39, ,597.74; mail, $1, 459.68; express, $1,415.70 miscel- laneous traffic earnings, SIS, ,793. 65; total, $96, ,278.32. Operating expences: Transportation, S8, 194 23; motive power $5, 767.84; general repairs, $2, 335.98; maintenance of way, $5, ,848. 39; general expenses $9, 153.68; total $31, 320.12. Net earnings from traffic, $64, ,958.20 Payments: Interest on first mortgage bonds, $50, ,000; on debt, $50, 900; other payments, $542. 40; total, $60, 542. 20; balance surplus, $4, ALSO.
 Financial statement December 31, 1887: Capital stock (par value $100), $500, 900; funded debt, first mortgage per cent. fifty-year bonds. due I'=b- ruary, 1883, interest payable February and August, $500, 900; second mortgage income per cent. non-cumulative bonds, dated Febauary 1, 1883, S500 900 current accounts, 5,774.67; profit and loss, $8,92160; total, 1,514, 696. 27. Contra: Cost of roads, franchise, equip ment, etc., $1, 800. 900; ;..due from other railroad companies, ss$3, ,568. 33; from agents, $64. AS; materials and fuel on hand, S3, 112 24; other assets, $7,951. .22; total, $1, ,514, ,696.27, securities mostly held by construction company.
 Rolling Stock: Locomotives, two; cars passenger, one; baggage, etc., one; platform, six; service, eight; total, sixteen. Other rolling stock is fur nished by St. Louis & San Francisco Railway company.
 Business Interests. First merchants: o. D. Thornton, the first merchant, establishedshis place of business July 6, 1879, with stock of goods worth about $2O0. September 13, 1879, Montgomery Bros. opened a grocery on the opposite.sid of thesstreet, with a stock worth $50. Mrs. Massman supplied the lumber used in the early building operations from her saw-mill on Leatherwood Creek. William Con ant was the first liveryman. The "King House." built by Mrs. King, of Washburn, Mo-, across the gulch from the Basin Spring, was the first hotel The number of business places in summer of 1881 is given as 100. The first shipment over the Eureka Springs Railway was severall cars of hay, of which S. c. Mills was the con- signee Spring and Main Streets, and particularly the immediate vicinity of Basin Spring, have always been the most active business portions of the town, and will doubtless continue so.
 The following is classified list of business places at the present time:
 Grocers-E. S. Timmons, A. L. Baker, Harper 6 Smith, W. H. Kaylor, Mclaughlin &s Robinson, J. s. Alex ander, Martin & Co.,, Joseph Geek & Son, Hudson & Henson, Edward Hai- gler, H. N. Childers, S. T. Dickens, J. M. V. Shreve, H. D. Field, G.. s. Brown, c. w. Finn, C.. ". Smith, Packard 6 Cannon, D. H. Hopper, G. w. Malcolm, Joe F. Ivey & Bro, Levi Fuller & Son, Samuel Hays, s. J. Moore & Son E. o. Freeman & Co.,. Mark Dean, n,--Adams, s. Carroll.
 Dry Goods Montgomery 6 Riley, s. Turner, Sam. Fyfe.
 General Stores-T. E. Clark, w. w. Davis & Co.,, A. J. Ray, Davis & Cham plin, Wilson Riley, Nichols 6 Smith, Cuthbertson & Co.,, B. N. Nichols, Payne X Haman, R. L. Meaders.
 Hardware Joseph Breeding, w. G. Jenkins 6 Co.,, A. N. Matthews & Co.,, J. w. Breeding
 Funiture-W. s. Wadsworth, Sutliff & Bradley.
 Druggists-E E. Brim, F. Bell chamber, H. T. Pendergrass, T. L. Miller, N. Gibson.
 Undertrkers-Z. B. Drummond, w. s. Wadsworth.
 Books and Stationary-H. Fitch & Son, George Bladridge.
 Jewelry-J. P. Shepherd, H. Shep- L;+aL