G. W. Reid, et al. registered in the San Jacinto Chattel Mortgage Register, on January 1, 1923, a sawmill and all timber being cut on the Enoch Jones Survey, to Johanna Manning, for $2,000. A mortgage of April 23, 1923, to T. E. Keisler reveals that the Keisler facility was a complete sawmill with a company town of a commissary and tenant houses. Reid had bought timber stumpage from the estate of D. J. Young and Mary E. Carey, owners of the old Columbia Lumber Company that had sold out to Palmetto Lumber Company. The stumpage was located on 823 acres in the Enoch Jones Survey and 200 acres in the J Foster survey near the mill in San Jacinto County. A chattel document of June 12, 1923, lists the sawmill, eight tenant houses, a store house, wagons, mules, harness sets, and about 400,000 feet of lumber.
G. W. Reid owned another mill two and a half miles southeast of Oakhurst during these years.