The Nacogdoches newspaper noted in July 1902 that “W. G. Harrington is putting up a planer on the Lee mill site, instead of Mr. Lee, as stated yesterday. Mr. Lee, however, is superintending the work. Joe Langston is keeping books for Mr. Harrington.” By February 1903 the Harrington planing mill was operating in Davidson's pasture, which had been rented from Lee. Harrington was ordered to move it in February 1903 when the Texas & New Orleans rented or leased the area for its expansion efforts in making Nacogdoches the freight headquarters for the railroad company.
Harrington moved the planing mill to South Street and the Texas & New Orleans tracks.
He and Frank Summers were buying lumber and equipment at E. J. Hunt's bankruptcy sale at Appleby in July 1903. Harrington and Summers bought a planer shed and some lumber at $4.10 per thousand feet. In August 1903, the rail switches to the planer were being completed.
According to the January 1905 issue of the Lumbermen's Credit Association's Reference Book, W.T. Wilson ran a wholesale lumber yard in Nacogdoches in connection with a planing and grain mill located at South Street and the Texas & New Orleans tracks. He had bought the Harrington planing mill in Nacogdoches during the spring of 1905.