HISTORY OF SOUTHEAST MISSOURI 393 churches, and other establishments, ulation is 360. Mill Spring The pop- ]Iill Spring, a few miles south of Leeper on the Iron Mountain, was once an important lumber manufacturing town. The mills have closed down and the town is supported only by the farming country. It is near a large and beautiful spring from which it takes its name. The spring was once used to furnish power for the mill. The population is now given as 360. WiLLIAMSVILLE Williamsville, an important town in Wayne county, is situated at the junction of the Iron Mountain main line with the Williamsville, Greenville and St. Louis Railroad, and also on the Hoxie branch of the Frisco. Its trans- portation facilities are such as to make it a good town in time, as the country develops in a farming way. For years it was sup- ported by mills which used up the large for- est of pine timber. Later the iron industry became important and large reduction works were built for handling the iron ore. These have not yet proved permanent and the town depends largel.y upon its railroad and farm- ing interest. There are five stores, a mill, two hotels, churches and the Williamsville State Bank with a capital of $10,000, which was chartered in 1905.
