The Mena weekly star., 1910-11-17
Held Meeting With Directors Of
Mena & Hot Springs Railroad
Company Monday.
CLAIM MOST TONNAGE
Say That This Route Taps Half Million
Acres Virgin Forest and Best
agricultural Section -Reso.
lutions Adopted.

Fifteen prominent citizens and
property owners of Montgomery coun-
ty every one worker, arrived in
Mena last Sunday, coming overland
in buggies and carriages, most of them
stopping at the Antlers.
They were here in the interest of
that territory that lies on a direct line
between Mena and Hot Springs, known
otherwise as the northern route for
the proposed Mena and Hot Springs
railroad. The towns represented are
Waters, Oden, Washita, Mt. Ida and
Silver, and the purpose is to secure
the railroad for that route in prefer
ence to the southern route, which
touches Big Fork. Black Springs and
Womble.
L. L. Beavers, cashier Montgomery
County Bank. Mt. Ida. and president
of the Caddo Valley Bank. Womble.
Gibson Witt. attorney-at-law and
ex-president of the state senate, Mt.
Ida.
G. H. Speer. Jr., circuit clerk Of
Montgomery county. Mt. Ida.
w. l. Howell, farmer and large land
holder, Mt. Ida.
H. A. Zimmerman, business man
and land owner, Mt. Ida.
George Sherman. editor of the
Montgomery County Times, and live
wire booster for Western Arkansas.
J. r. Woods, farmer graduate of
Department of Rural Sociology Uni
versity of Chicago. and County Farm
Demonstration agent. Mt. Ida.
T. M. Scott, ex-sheriff. farmer and
merchant, Mt. Ida.
William Alley. farmer and mer-
chant, Silver. Mr.. Alley is brother
of Judge j. |. Alley of Mena.
Hon. G. ID. Cogburn, representative
in the general assembly from Mont
gomery county, Silver.
Vernon Miller, merchant. Washita.
In. Freeman, physician, merchant
and land holder, Washita.
Rollin Phillips, farmer. Washita.
J. D. Robbins, physician and ex-
tensive land holder, 0den.
David Friar, merchant and land
holder, Oden.
Alec Mckenzie, merchant aud land
holder, Waters.
| w. D. Freeman, physician, Mt. Ida.
Early Monday morning the directors
of the Mena and Hot Springs railroad
and the Montgomery county delega-
ton met in the offices of Representa-
tive-elect w. M. Pipkin. Senator
Gibson Witt on behalf of the delegation
made an earnest talk in behalf of their
proposition. He said that they came
here in behalf of the people of sec
ton of Montgomery county extending
from the western to the eastern bord-
er, offering the cooperation of all the
people in that territory to Mena and
those who were working to bring about
the construction of the railroad.
Short talks also were made by Messrs.
Beavers, Sherman, Freeman, Robbins
and others of the delegation, and by
A.. H. Scoeeins. Eugene Cox, DR..
Parks, George Leeate and others for
Mena.
The contentious of the visitors fol-
the northern route are that it is the
most direct and shortest by eight
miles: that it passes through the only
real agricultural section of Montgom-
cry county, as well as 500. 900 acres
of virgin forest and timber lands. to
say nothing of rich mineral lands that
that are now being developed. They
point out, too, that the proposed south
ern route is tapped already by the
Gurden & Ft. Smith railroad. which
has already taken out the best of the
| timber in that section.
| The following resolutions were adopt
ed at a meeting OF the delegation al
| the Antlers hotel this morning:
/: Whereas. II is understood that az