R.J. Tolstoy, in A History of William Cameron and Company, noted that William Cameron and Company acquired a mill at Haysland, in Panola County, the origins of which are unknown, in 1899.
Panola County records reveal that the date was 1901 and that it was the William Cameron and Company bought the R. R. Chany sawmill, which included the sawmill and its equipment, a tram road, and tenant houses. Property included a 12-inch by 16-inch Erie City engine and a 10-inch by 12-inch steam engine, a 60-horsepower boiler, a Bremmen & Company sawmill, a flooring machine, resaw, a planing mill. The millworkers had thirty-five tenant houses. Logging equipment included two tram engines, six miles of tram road, twenty oxen. There was also 500,000 feet of lumber at the mill site. Managers at Haysland were a Mr. McWilliams and a Mr. Sullivan. Tolstoy believes the mill closed in 1902.