T. B. Allen built a sawmill in Brookeland by 1904. In 1905, the company installed a set of “Arkansas” dry kilns. After cutting out, the mill was dismantled and moved to Allen, near Milvid, in 1908. At the height of operations, the mill employed seventy-five men with a payroll of $3,500 per month. In 1904, the mill cut two million board feet. Logging was done nearby with oxen and wagons; additionally, local farmers brought in logs to sell.
The company maintained fourteen rent houses, a commissary, and stock and feed.
Luther B. Campbell, one of the workers, was a popular man: a preacher, a cartoonist, and a decent clerk. Other employees were Nooner Collins, the General Superintendent; J. N. Yates, the bookkeeper, S. C. Stapleton and C W G Poore, timekeepers; Firchard Wilkinson, sawyer; W. D. Rogers, filer; Stapleton, yard foreman; J. W. Shelton, planer foreman; L. N. Letrey, planer engineer; W. J. Grisham, woods foreman; Lee McClusky, mill engineer; M. D. Sparks, team foreman; I. R. Loxye, night watchman.