[6] Bents was officially established in 1930 along a CPR rail line that ran between Perdue and Rosetown.

[7] The railway came through the area in 1929 and at one point Bents boasted several residential homes, a small train station, two grain elevators, a dance hall, a general store (Longworth’s General Store) and post office - all along a single street.

By the 1960s the town began an irreversible decline when the southern section of the rail line was abandoned.

It was at this time that the Saskatchewan Wheat Pool elevator, built in 1928 with the coming of the railway, closed for good.

The United Grain Growers elevator, also built in 1928, was sold to the Wheat Pool in the late 1960s and was also closed and torn down in the 1970s.