A. M. Rhyne and Bill Bolding had a lumber mill operation in Avinger for almost fifty years. It was located on Depot Street west of the tracks of the East Line & Red River, later the Sherman, Southern & Shreveport, later the Missouri-Kansas-Texas. East Line & Red River built through Avinger in 1877, which places the beginning of the mill no earlier than 1875. It was listed in the Southern Lumberman's Directory of American Saw Mills and Planing Mills in 1928.
A. M. Rhyne had a planing operation at Avinger, which he sold to Whitworth Bros. (See Whitworth Bros.)
Rhyne and Bolding also had a lumber mill, known as the old Douglas Mill, in Marion County, at the turn of the century.
W. H. Bolding's sawmill at Avinger appeared in the 1905 and 1907 editions of the Reference Book of the Lumbermen's Credit Association.