V. T. Emerson put together a sawmill plant from two different sawmill firms. V. T. Emerson mortgaged from Rose Pine Lumber Company for $750 a Brownell 44-inch by 14-foot boiler, a 10-inch by 12-inch Brownell steam engine, a Curtis sawmill, an Henderson engine, one Beaumont 6 1/2-inch shotgun steam feed, one 2-block carriage, one bull wheel and track, eight lumber dollies, a sawdust chain, and all lumber in the mill house and shed. Six days later V. T. Emerson mortgaged from R. L. Phelps for $300 a sawmill, a cutoff saw, a 50-inch by 16-foot Brownell boiler, a 10-inch by 12-inch Brownell steam engine, and a 6 1/2-inch shotgun steam feed thirty feet long, all in the sawmill Emerson bought from Phelps.
The Rosepine Lumber Company had passed from Emerson's hands by 1912 when Rosepine Lumber Company by A. Murphy made in trust all machinery tools, belting, shafting, all lumber and standing timber to the First National Bank of San Augustine to secure a $6,000 debt to the bank.