 As timber was logged from nearby mountainsides the saw mill relocated to other areas deeper within the mountains.Rodney, which had never developed a population base or economic mainstay other than the mill, went out of existence.Rodney's namesake, Rodney Moyer, left the area to participate in Alaska's Klondike gold rush at about the time of the community's disestablishment, according to information made available to the Pushmataha County Historical Society.