Burnett Lumber Company, with Jerry M. Burnett and Ashley Stroud, acquired the properties of the old Pine Island Lumber Company, a Foster Lumber Company subsidiary. Foster mortgaged the property to Burnett Lumber in September, 1905.
The mill had improvements made in 1906 and by June was running full time. The American Lumberman noted, in 1906, that Burnett Lumber Company would build a logging railroad. It gave its headquarters at Clawson, which was then the site of Henderson Land & Lumber Company leased site. Angelina County records contradict other reports that Burnett Lumber Company was milling lumber at Pine Island. In 1906, Burnett Lumber had contracted to cut timber for William Carlisle and Company.
The sale of Burnett Lumber to J. K. Bivins and E. W. Blythe note that the plant and the tram headquarters were located at Durst Station, close to Clawson on the Cotton Belt. The company leased tenant housing in Clawson. The Texas Long Leaf and Lumber Company of Bivins and Blythe operated the sawmill until 1911.
Bivins and Blythe were Cass County sawmillers of some note.