The Ogletrees owned or had owned several mills in the Livingston area. They had built one about 1929; acquired the Polk County Lumber Company mill in 1930; built another in 1940, which they sold to the J. N. Thornton Lumber Company in 1944; and erected the Livingston Wood Products Manufacturing Corporation in 1948. The Gulf Coast Lumberman noted in an article in 1950 that a fire damaged the plant to the cost of $35,000. The Texas Forest News carried an article in 1952 about the modern sawmill that Ogletree constructed at Livingston. The mill had a round-log gang saw, saw grinder, a lateral-adjusting log carriage, a dry kiln, and a finishing department.
The mill was rebuilt and modernized. In 1973, it manufactured 6.5 million feet of pine lumber products. In 1987, working with pine, the company produced lumber, wood chips, and broom handles.
The company also used in 1966 four lift trucks, a dry kiln, a hog, forty electric motors, three compressors, a moulder, a company-owned logging truck and one contract logging truck. It worked with southern pine.