The M. E. Boyle sawmill operated the entire year during the census year ending May 31, 1880. It was valued at $9,000. Boyle paid from $1.25 to $2.50 per day in wages to fifteen men normally and twenty-five at peak production and logging. He paid out $6,000 total in wages. The work day was ten to eleven hours depending on the season. Boyle did his own logging. From $16,000 in sawlogs and supplies, the sawmill produced three million board feet valued at $24,000.
The sawmill was the largest in Cass County at the time and one of the larger ones in Texas.