The firm of Crawford & Appling, according to the 1880 Census, owned a steam-powered circular sawmill, valued at $,1500, in Panola County. They employed ten men at peak production and four men and two children normally, paying them $.75 to $1.50 daily for nine-hour shifts during the winter and ten-hour shifts in the summer. The firm paid out a total of $250 in wages for six months of half-time mill production. The sawmill, from a value of $750 in supplies and sawlogs, produced 125,000 feet of lumber valued at $1,250.