On March 25, 1919, Tom Jeans, president of Sabine County Lumber Company, bought two miles of track, beginning at Watson Junction, from Hiram Knox, president of Knox Lumber Company. Watson Junction was on the Knox company tram road, the Lufkin, Hemphill, and Gulf railway. Drayton Speights, of Hemphill, Texas, recalled that the steam sawmill had a planer, employed about fifty men in the mill and the woods. Logging was done by oxen. Six court judgments between 1921 and 1923 gives strong indication that the mill was eventually sold at a sheriff's auction to satisfy creditors.
E. D. Watson also had a financial interest in J. B. Christensen's Talltimber Lumber Company.