A. W. Carlisle is listed in 1884 as having a mill at Kountze, Hardin County.
The Beaumont Enterprise reported that Carlyle and Snelling were running a mill a mile above Kountze in 1881. Sometime thereafter they must have built a second mill closer to town, for by 1884, Carlyle and Snelling were listed independently with their own mills at Kountze by a railroad directory.
The hurricane of October 12, 1886, may have destroyed the sawmill complex, as it did many others in Louisiana and Texas. This plant does not appear in records after this time.