The Ware & Driskell lumber mill was listed in various directories at Jefferson from 1928 to 1957. The mill itself was located some miles to the west of the town at Sarber. A sawmill community with commissary and tenant housing was provided for the workers. Webb describes Sarber, on mail route from Lasater in central part of county, as a sawmill site in the 1930s. Fred Tarpley's Jefferson: Riverport to the Old Southwest (1983) describes briefly the operation of the Ware & Driskell Lumber Company. Located at Sarber, nine miles west of Jefferson, in 1926, it filled a void after the the closing of the Boice & Clark Lumber Company's longtime operation at Jefferson. Driskell & Ware began as a shingle mill with two mules and grew to a medium-sized operation that lasted until the 1950s. It had a commissary, tenant housing, and a tram road, which ran six and one-half miles from Black Cypress Bayou to White Oak. In 1947 the company employed 150 to 200 men.