The Mena weekly star., 1908-03-05
KENNA, N. M., AND
 JUDGE WILSON ORR
Former Mena Citizen Who Is Prosper ing in New Mexico Wants Old Friends to Know of
 His Town.

| The Star has received letter from Judge Wilson Orr, former resident of this county, enclosing the following article, as taken from the Albuquerque Morning Journal, and cbeck to pay to have it published in The Star, so that his friends, some of whom have been writing him, can learn more of the new town where Mir. Orr has become so prominent:
 This is another story of some of the wonderful development and growth going on in this sec tion of Southeast New Mexico. Kenna is new town, just about two years old. It is fifty miles from Roswell and Is in the mid dle of a hrst-class agricultural district. It's population today is 500. It will have doubled in an. other year. The father of Kenna is Judge Wilson Orr, who came here in the spring of 1906. He came from Elida, where he held the office of United States com missioner, moving the office with him. Judge Orr was the first owner of the townsite, and, while he has disposed of that, still holds large town and country properties. He foresaw the op portunity here and took advan- tage of 1t. giving away town lots to men who desired to establish permanent business and generally following a broad and liberal poll icy. Just now he is giving much of his time to the cultivation of fifty acres of his farm near here. His brother, James M. Orr, is also interested here, and IS con- ducting a profitable real estate t.H sintss.
 kenna seems to have a certain future. It will be the supply point for h e proposed Union Lake reservoir when that pro1ect is built, and has the finest kind of farming country all around. Something of the development may be gathered from the fact that more than 5000 filings have been made in the office before Judge Orr since it's establish ment. A cotton gin will be put in this tall and about 2,000 acres will be put in cotton this year. A canning factory is a probable industry of the immediate future. Kenna has a good school with an enrolment of no. It has a live weekly newspaper, he kenna Record, and all lines of business are well represented, and all bus mess houses fiourishing.
 The farming country is show ing up we'll. One farmer sold $500 worth of corn from the first cultivation of raw land this year. The country needs what 1t is now getting, men who know how to farm and are not afraid of work. They are coming in punches. Seyenty-six honeseekers came in on single day last week with five cars of household goods and farming implements. They are coming on every train, and while there is still plenty of govern ment land open to homestead entry 1t will not last long at the present rate.
 kenna has sound banking in- stitution in the Kenna Bank and Trust Company, capital SIS, 1000. The bank is under the manage ment of w. B. Scott and has been paying cash through all the re- cent financial furry. It has the full confidence of the community. Almost every business man has farm near town to which he de- votes portion of his time. The townsite company is under the management of D. G. Boyuton, who IS making successful venture of it. The town has two comfortable hotels. The Kenna Lumber and Mercantile Company is one of the largest business houses in this section of the country, located at Kenna. It was formed recently by combi- nation of the Kenna Lumber Company and Cooper X Sons, grocers, all enterprising young business men.
 Every man you meet in kenna is enthusiastic over the future of the town and every man is ready to do what he can to advance it's interests. It is a safe bet that Kenna will De established before long as one of the prosperous, solid towns of this great district.
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