W. T. Block believes that H. G. Bohlssen was contracted by either Miller-Vidor Lumber or Kirby Lumber to cut hardwoods on the Trinity River plain of Liberty County. The sawmill cut about 35,000 to 45,000 feet daily.
Bohlssen's Liberty County sawmill town had a hotel, a boarding house, post office, planing mill, and a tram road. The mill was dismantled about 1912, and later moved to Jasper. Some employees were Irwin Johnson, bookkeeper; George W. Brown, sawmill foreman; Fritz von Stein, yard foreman; Alvin Edger,sawmill engineer; Dr. J. P. Price, sawmill physician; D. W. Cupps, filer; Jas. Byrnes, hotel operator; J. W. Watson, grader; Henry Watson, grader; J. S. Brett, planer foreman; Frank Johnston, assistant planer foreman; R. N. Nickell, locomotive engineer.