The Beaumont Journal reported in 1905 that T. J. Williams was looking into purchasing one of the mills at Shawnee Creek. Angelina County records of the same date note that T. J. Williams was buying lumber from the Nunnally & McConnico sawmill.
Williams did not buy a mill at Shawnee but apparently did purchase one near the Diboll Station site, four miles east of Lufkin, next to the tracks of the Cotton Belt. Diboll Station is not the Diboll on the Houston East & West Texas tracks just north of the Neches River. Williams became indebted to J. J. McConnico, and the latter sold Williams' sawmill, grist mill, gin, and company town to S. J. Cowart in December 1907 for $1,200. Cowart had earlier been sawmilling near Huntington.
W. G. Harrington of Harrington Lumber Company of Nacogdoches County (with the Davisville Lumber Company of Angelina County) accepted a deed of trust from S. J. Cowart Lumber Company on October 6, 1908, for the sawmill site at Diboll Junction. Equipment included a 44-inch by 12-foot boiler; a 10-inch by 14-inch steam engine; a “Brinnan” [Bremmen] sawmill complete; dollies; trimmers; blacksmith tools and ship; and five box houses. By October 1911, Harrington had control of the sawmill plant; in October that year, he gave a deed of trust to B. A. Longine as a Trustee for a $2,000 mortgage. It was located on seven acres of T. J. Hicks. Harrington had apparently converted the sawmill plant into a planing mill with a Berlin planer and matcher.