Beasely & Porter is listed in a railroad journal of 1880 as having a pine sawmill at Daingerfield. They had moved their sawmill by 1880 from Titus County (where they had been enumerated by the 1870 Census) to Daingerfield, Morris County, where it was enumerated in Precinct 1 by the census enumerator. The circular sawmill was powered by a 24-horsepower steam engine and boiler. Beasely & Porter employed ten men at peak production and eight normally, paying them $.75 to $2.50 daily for ten-hour days, winter and summer; the workers received a total wage of $500. During six months at half-time production, the sawmill, from $1,200 worth of supplies and sawlogs, milled 240,000 feet of lumber worth a value of $2,400.
Logging was done on Boggy Creek.