Homer Sessions operated a gasoline-powered tie sawmill near Wells about 1912. He later operated a steam sawmill at Chancy's Switch in Angelina County. During the following decades, he had lumber interests in Arp, Troupe, and Mt. Pleasant, in Texas, as well as in the New Mexico Eastern Lumber Company at Artesia. By 1947, he sold most of his retail interests because of ill health. He did have a yard at Marshall, Texas, in 1949. In 1951, he bought his father's company at Wells. See Rube Sessions entry.