According to the January 1905 Reference Book of the Lumbermen's Credit Association, the Peach River Lumber Company manufactured lumber at their mill in Bennette as well as at their mill in Timber, both in Montgomery County. The mill have been founded by J. H. Bennette, but this mill appeared in a sawmill listing of 1904, but not one of 1906. Darlington-Miller Lumber Company, Galveston controlled output in March 1904. J.O.H. Bennette appeared in the January 1905 Lumbermen's Credit Association records as merely dealing in ties at Conroe. The Darlington-Miller Lumber Company of Galveston, in Center, Shelby County, founded in 1890 and with retail yards in Texas, Oklahoma, and Missouri, had been reorganized by C. S. Vidor, who bought Darlington's interest, and the firm was reorganized as Miller-Vidor.