 The success of the railroad rerouted much business around Ellinger to Fayetteville, though its agricultural business, which shifted to ranching, grains, and pecans by midcentury, kept it afloat.In 1902, there was a general store (run by J. and B. Wacker), a lumber business, stocking such items as "a nail to a stump-pulling machine" (C.F.Steves), a drugstore (run by E.J.