The manufacturing firm of Nobles & Thompson operated a rough-lumber sawmill at San Augustine from about 1906 to 1910. The mortgages were handled by George Dilley &Son of Palestine, Anderson County and the First National Bank. Southern Industrial and Lumber Review reported that this mill was producing 20,000 feet daily in 1906. It was not listed in the 1907 edition of the Reference Book of the Lumbermen's Credit Association. According to San Augustine county records, the firm of Noble & Thompson mortgaged to Geo Dilley & Son for a Curtis 54-inch right hand circular saw. R. A. Thompson on 13 May 1907 mortgaged to Dilley, payable in eleven notes, two boilers and other machinery. R. A. Thompson on 22 December 1906 mortgaged $857 with the First National Bank for a sawmill, steam machinery, and nine mules. The Thompson Lumber Company was taxed by the county in 1908 on product, boilers, and tools. It disappears from San Augustine history shortly thereafter.