Reference Book of the Lumbermen's Credit Association, January 1907 listed J. C. Williams of Ashland as owning a sawmill. He apparently also owned a planing mill. In September 1907, Williams sold the mill and his logging outfit (including twenty-one mules, two Milburn log wagons, one Owensboro log wagon, one Espenchied log wagon, five tenant houses, a carriage, a sawmill husk, a three-saw edger, a Glencoe planer, a saw gummer, and a saw swage) to D. W. Hills, E. G. Gentry and D. S. Shelburne for $15,175.87. A specific sawmill is not listed in the document recorded in the county records about the sale; it is possible that the sawmill either burned or Williams kept it for himself. The price of the sale as well as the extensive and expensive inventory of physical and material items indicate that Williams sold the entire plant to Hills et al.