W. G. Harrington of Nacogdoches, according to county records, owned the Davisville Lumber Company of Angelina County in 1906. He was in financial difficulties and had to convey the property to W. G. Ratcliff, Trustee, for Stone Fort National Bank.
In March 1909, John S. Doughtie of the Davisville Lumber Company at Davisville, east of Redland and two miles north of Lukfin, queried the Angelina County Lumber Company if it could “handle” his company for “thirty - ($30,000) thousand dollars.” His properties on 446 acres included wood assets of eight million board feet of standing timber, five hundred thousand feet of stacked logs, and seven hundred thousand feet of lumber. The property had dry kilns and furnaces. He had a commissary with stock and feed, fifty buildings and rent houses, office fixtures and furniture. His sawmill included an elevate, a log pond, a water pond, two large boilers, a shot gun feed, and an automatic gummer. The planing mill had a Hoyt machine, a Berlin machine, a rip saw, a re-saw, and an automatic sharpener.