The Directory of Texas Manufacturers, 1956-1958 lists the sawmill of J. H. Busbee who, in 1956, was producing pine lumber with less than eight employees. The firm had been established in 1943.
Nelson Samson's directories in 1957 and 1966 report that the J. M. Busbee Lumber Company was operating at Broaddus with less than eight employees. Ernest Nash told Vernon L. Beasley that he remembered the “Hubert Busby” sawmill at Broaddus in the 1960s, which was the Troy Carroll mill that Carroll bought from Busby. Nash believed that the sawmill was cutting 35,000 feet daily and that the company provided some tenant housing. According to M. Beard, the sawmill plant was running in the 1940s and that it burned.
Hubert Busby, when interviewed by Vernon Beasley, reported that the J. H. Busby sawmill operated one and a half miles south of Broaddus from 1943 to 1960. The Directory of Texas Manufacturers 1960 dropped the Busbee Sawmill from its listings. The plant, its commissary, and its houses were sold to Troy Carroll, who operated it until 1967.