The Beaumont Journal in 1904 reported that the LaNana mill of Harrington Lumber Company was near the site of the old Bermea Land and Lumber mill, which had quit about eight years earlier. The new mill was “considered the largest and the best mill in the county.” It would cut 40,000 feet in ten hours. Harrington was supposed to have plans for a planer, which he later added (in the old Davidson pasture in Nacogdoches near the abandoned R. H. Lee sawmill), and a tram road. He appeared in the January 1905 issue of the Lumbermen's Credit Association's Reference Book as a manufacturer of yellow pine lumber at Nacogdoches. He received a poor rating, however, being classified as a “slow pay(er).” A short time later, in February 1905, the American Lumberman reported that W.G. Harrington had “sold out his lumber business at Nacogdoches” and would “move to Dallas.” He sold his planing mill to W.. T. Wilson in the spring of 1905.
Whatever eventually happened is uncertain, for a Harrington Lumber Company mill at Nacogdoches appeared in a 1906 list of sawmills, published by the Southern Industrial and Lumber Review. It may have been the Harrington mill at LaNana, eight miles south of LaNana.