M. L. Spinks' lumber-manufacturing operation is listed at Colmesneil in the 1934 The Lumbermen's Credit Rating Book. On 30 March 1948, the Sturgis Lumber Company, with plants at Hemphill and Jasper, sold to M. L. Spinks the old Fisher Lumber Company sawmill and planing mill, which Sturgis Lumber had bought eighteen days earlier.