This mill was originally owned by a Mr. Noble, a San Augustine name prominent in sawmilling along the Sabine River and its tributaries. Sabine County records reveal that E. D. Watson and brothers J. B. and John D. Christensen owned sawmills at Brookeland and on the Henry Nichols survey in Sabine County, and at Frankston, in Anderson County. By May 1916, J. B. Christensen had bought out his brother and E. D. Watson.
This researcher presumes that Talltimber was the name of the company that J. B. Christensen organized for stock issue in 1917, for that is when Talltimber Lumber starts appearing in the Sabine County official records Talltimber Lumber Company, had succeeded to the properties of Watson-Christensen of Hemphill, with mills at Birdwell''s Switch, Brookeland, and the old Watson-Christensen mill on the Henry Nichols Survey, about four miles east and south of Hemphill, renamed Talltimber. In each of those years, it contracted to build tenant houses at Talltimber.
Later in 1920, Talltimber was in financial straits. The Sabine County sheriff had a writ of attachment against the mill for an unpaid labor bill.