 One Mennonite church (in Goltry) remained .Early railroad construction, from the Choctaw Northern line (1901), the Kansas City, Mexico and Orient (1901), the Arkansas Valley and Western (1904), and the Denver, Enid and Gulf Railroad Company (1904), contributed greatly to the county's early prosperity and caused many small towns to flourish.They would compete as wheat-shipping points and agribusiness centers for many years thereafter.