The Glen Lumber Company, described as the successor to the Marion Lumber Company in Marion County Deeds of Trust, with Thomas and Lola Willis, had been sawmilling at Pine Ridge since 1905. That year the leased forty acres on the J. W. Fields Survey at a $100 per year. The company operated a wood and steel tram road from its logging camp at Pine Ridge to its mill town.
American Lumberman in 1905 noted that the Glen Lumber Company bought the sawmill of the Torrans Manufacturing Company in Marion County. Torrans Manufacturing, according to a railroad circular, had a production capacity of 50,000 feet of lumber daily in 1901. Glen Lumber continued tram operations in 1906, leasing a right of way on Henry Washington's land. Glen Lumber belonged to the Yellow Pine Manufacturers Association, in 1908. In 1908, the company mortgaged a planing mill plant in Rusk County to Porter & Biggs.
An unsigned article in Crosscut, reported that this “was one of the most substantial lumbering communities in the region. The company operated a commissary store, paid its workers with ‘chips,' had an insurance company, and hired a doctor for mill workers.”