W. W. Wall, known as “Uncle Bud,” according to The Jacksonville Journal in 1947, established a cotton gin in San Augustine County in 1910. Sometime later, Wall built a sawmill and added a planing mill. By 1947, Wall had taken his son Warren F. Wall as his partner. That year they were sawmilling in the “Goodwin sector”. The sawmill's daily capacity depended upon its product: about 4,000 to 5,000 feet for rough lumber and about 10,000 feet for bridge timbers. The gin operated two seventy-saw stands.
This is probably the unidentified sawmill operation that Maxie Martin, an old-time San Augustine County resident, remembered as being at Goodwin after 1900.