T. G. Whitton and Hillis sawmill operation is mentioned twice in 1907 in Nacogdoches County bill of sale records. On September 24, T. G. Whitton & Hillis paid H. Judd and other for with 120,000 feet of lumber for labor and hauling at their sawmill located about ten miles east on the Upper Nacogdoches and Martinsville Road from Nacogdoches. A bill of sale record identifies the location of the T. G. Whitton mill as at Stack.
C. L. Willis of Willis & Whitton contracted N. C. Stack on July 1, 1907, to supply the Whitton & Willis mill with sawtimber, priced at $4.75 per 1,000 feet.
J. T. Kolb bought T. G. Whitton's sawmill complex located near Stoker, nine miles northeast of Nacogdoches on the Upper Nacogdoches and Martinsville Road, on October 9, 1907, for $2,700. Known as the Whitton and Willis mill, property and equipment included a HSG 48-inch by 14-foot boiler, an 11-inch by 14-inch steam engine, a Bremmen sawmill, a Giant feed works, a 3-saw edger, the mill and planer sheds, plus the lumber sheds at Appleby, all other items and appurtenances necessary for the operation of a sawmill, and the lumber contracts of T. G. Whitton.
Kolb renewed N. C. Stack's logging contract that he had earlier made with Willis and Whitton.