F. A. Hornbeck of Kansas City, the president of Southern Long Leaf Lumber Company, in 1904, built a lumber mill at McClain's Switch, a mile from Rush and close to Pineland. Neither McClain's Switch nor Rush is listed in the 1905 and 1907 editions of the Reference Book of the Lumbermen's Credit Association, but a newspaper report of 1905 notes the Southern Long Leaf Lumber Company sawmill at Brookeland as does the Reference Book for 1905. Yet the Reference Book notes it at Pineland in 1907. The Reference Book used close-by, recognizable place names, and settled on using Pineland.
Joseph D. Labrie sold sixty acres of land and the sawmill and improvement Southern Long Leaf had made on the land. A fly-wheel problem shut the mill down for forty days in March and April 1905. By April 1905 the planer was operating. That year, Hornbeck's mill was sawing 40,000 feet and planing 50,000 feet daily. Hornbeck lost timberland to Ragley-McWilliams, when they picked up a note he could not honor. Hornbeck sold to Ragley-McWilliams another 1,500 acres for $21,148 cash and $11,000 in notes. He was in financial trouble with Houston, Standard, and Gamble (makers and financiers of sawmill machinery and equipment), allowing W. Y. Garrison and J. A. Kelly of Garrison-Norton Lumber Company the opportunity to provide further pressure on Southern Long Leaf. W. T. Block believes that because of the Ragley-McWilliams August 1906 size of the sale price, must have included the mill although it was not so stated.