The Pyle family has operated a small sawmill complex at Marshall from the Great Depression. Barney R. Pyle was first listed at Marshall in 1930. The Gulf Coast Lumberman reported that a fire destroyed the sawmill on May 15, 1952, causing $8,000 in loss. The planing mill and lumber yard were saved. By the later 1950s, seventy-five percent of its products were of yellow pine with the remainder from gum and oak. The Gulf Coast Lumberman reported that a planer fire on April 7, 1960, destroyed a part of the plant. The sawmill was undamaged. In 1966, the plant had three lifts and was employing forty workers. The plant produced five million board feet in 1973. By 1975, the company was working with ash, cedar, cottonwood, cypress, elm gum, loblolly pine, pecan, walnut, and willow.
The operation was listed in the 1987 Directory of Forest Products Industries In Texas.