 The new rail formed part of the Atlantic System of the Southern Pacific Company.In October 1906, a new location (sections 25 and 30, township 5, of range 8 west) was cleared along the route for the "Longville Long Leaf Lumber Company" and town.The company built the three-story, 60-room "Southern Hotel", 163 cottages for workers, a large commissary with $30,000 worth of supplies, an elementary and high school, a complete machine shop, roundhouse, car repair shop, and blacksmith shop.