The King Lumber consisted of George H. Burrows, J. H. King, and Jessie Jones, according to Bowie County records. In 1908, it contracted E. V. Burn to provide it with sawtimber to be paid at $1.50 per log scale foot for two and a half years. In October, it purchased the Tom Sanders sawmill, and indicated to the Southern Lumberman that it would erect a planing mill to handle the produce of two sawmills. The Directory of American Sawmills reported in 1915 that it was cutting 10,000 feet daily of yellow pine lumber.