Jack Creek Lumber Company, situated at Caruthers, north by west of Lufkin, may have been operating by early as 1895. By 1900, it was being serviced by the Eastern Texas Railway. Jack Creek Lumber must have held a subsidiary position to the Angelina County Lumber Company at Keltys. Although the sawmill was at Caruthers, the office was at Keltys and one of the company's officers was J. H. Kurth, Jr. The Angelina County Deed Records indicate the intricate relationships of E. T. Clark, the Hendersons, and the Kurths. Much of the pine stumpage was located in the Jas. H. Kuykendall and Joel Hill surveys.
The company was not incorporated until August 1906. Sawmilling was normally done on contract for the larger companies. For instance, it filled orders for Angelina County Lumber Company in 1907 and 1908 and for Carter-Kelley Lumber Company in 1908.
In 1909, Jack Creek Lumber was attempting to sell timber and land to Southern Pine Lumber at Diboll in order to satisfy the former's indebtedness to the latter.