The James A. Biggar Sawmill was located where Butler's Creek crosses the Neuville-Shelbyville road, about four and a half miles northeast of Neuville and several miles south of Shelbyville. The mill was a combination mill, in that it ginned cotton and sawed lumber. His mortgage and loan records reveal a technological world combining the Texas of the past with that of the new: oxen and eight-wheel log wagons, a DeLoach sawmill, and a gasoline engine were all mortgaged at one time or another. The census records of 1910 reveal that he lived at Precinct 2, residence 258, on the Shelbyville and Neuville Road, and that he owned a sawmill.