M. M. Tolar (or Toler) operated a sawmill at Joaquin in 1906. He sold it to J. R. Schilling & Company by the following year, who had moved it to near Center. J. H. Harvey took a mortgage on the Schillings or a boiler, a steam engine, a #2 Henderson sawmill and a 30-inch grist mill. In May 1906, the company mortgaged to Dilley for $400 a Curtis Dixie D sawmill, a carriage and set works, head blocks, two sawmill dogs, saw dust conveyor, and five lumber dolleys. The next day Schilling got a lumber wagon from Lindsey Wagon Company on mortgage. In February 1907, Schilling mortgaged to Dilley & Son a 30-inch 3-saw edger and to B.. A. Barnes “all lumber manufactured by us at our sawmill near Center.” That same month, the Schillings mortgage to Tolar “the boiler, dustrig, dust chain, a circular sawmill, and 70 feet of belting,” all of which had been bought earlier from Tolar. By May, Schilling mortgaged to W. J. Owens ten horses and mules, twelve yokes of oxen, five log wagons.
James R. Schilling was enumerated at Precinct 1, residence 91, on Logansport Road, in 1910. Charles A. Manning lived at residence 94, Precinct 1, and was enumerated as the sawmill foreman of the J. R. Schilling sawmill.