This sawmill is listed as Bovier Grayden in the 1880 Census. The mill was in Precinct 6 with Longview as a post office. Declared a $20,000 capital value, it was powered with an 80-horsepower steam engine and used an 8-saw gang and two circular saws. During the reporting period, the sawmill cut 2,400,000 board feet of lumber, valued at $20,000, from raw materials worth $9,200. Twenty to thirty men worked at the mill and in the woods near the mill; they were paid from $1.30 to $4.00 per ten-hour day; they were paid a total combined wage of $6,000. Logging was done adjacent to the Sabine River, and the sawtimber was floated in rafts down the Sabine.