The Mena weekly star., 1921-09-01
RAILROAD COMING
 HERE FROM EAST?
Announcement of Log Road Extension in Montgomery County Reyives Belief Mena Is to Be Ter
 minal of Line.

Announcement that the Caddo River Lumber Company was preparing to start work on the building of a rall- road line in Montgomery county, mas revived belief that Mena is to be the intimate terminal of the new line. Work on the 16-mile log road is to be started this fall, according to an- nonncement by T. W. Rosborough, head of the lumber company.
 The route of the new railroad IS north and eastward from Womple ana the present survey ends close to the Polk county line. The line trayerses some of the best timber land ID Western Arkansas.
 For some time past rumors have been in circulation the Caddo Com, panv planned to build the railroad and President Rosborough's statement confirms them. The rumors have also heen persistent that the road would also be extended eastward to Mena and connect with the Kansas City Southern here.
 In support of such belief is the fact that such connection would afford the Caddo Company an outlet to the Northern lumber markets. It IS also pointed out that less than 20 miles of rails would have to be laid to com plete the connection. However, no official confirmation of this rumor has heen made. A Little Rock dispatch of Thursday gives the following con corning the new railroad extension:
 "A logging railroad from Kosooro thru Womble thence l6 miles north ward into a 900,000-aere timber tract in Montgomery county will be built his fall and winter by the Caddo River Company of Rosboro, according to T. W. Rosborough, who was in Little lock yesterday closing deals for sever al Womble properties thru which the road will run and which were owned here.
 ''Mr. Rosborough said that the sur vev for the right-of- way is being rushed and that the company intends to invite bids for the construction work early next month. He said the contract will be awarded as soon as satisfactory bid is received. The road will be operated over the tracks of the Missouri Pacific for one mile from the mill at Rosboro to Womble then will use the new line into the timber tract of 900,00o acres, which has not yet been entered.
 Mfr. Rosborough said his company expects the road to cost approximate lv SlO.000 per mile exclusive of the steel. which the company has on hand now. and that it will be equipt with locomotives now being used and with one additional new engine. MT. Rosborough said the company will have payroll of $25,000 a month and that fully half will be spent in Womble. The tract of timber to be cut has been bought by the Caddc River Lumber Company at various periods during the last six years, tho largest single purchase being that o1 95,O00 acres. The timber mostly is pine, with some hardwood, and there is enough of it to keep the Rosboro plant running steadily for 15 or 20 years with daily output of 100000 feet.
 "The Caddo River Lumber Company mill was built at Rosboro 15 years ago. The original plant was a single bandmill. This mill burned in 1915 and was replaced by the present double bandmill. The plant has operated thruout the last year, losing only two and one-half days, one of these the Fourth of July, and the remainder when the snow storm made use of the company's tram impossible.