M. Cooper told Vernon L. Beasley that Homer Sessions' sawmill at Arp had a daily cutting capacity of 40,000 feet. He remembered that it was a “big mill” with a commissary, tenant houses, and a planer. According Cooper, Sessions built a larger mill at Artesia, New Mexico, which corresponds with the information above. The Smith County records reveal that Homer Sessions had bought land in the Easton Gee League in 1937 and that his operation was located about one mile southwest of Arp. In 1931, according to the Cherokee County History, Sessions opened the Arp Lumber Company at Arp, Texas, and a lumber yard at nearby Troup, Texas.