Enoch Broxson operated a sawmill in Houston County during the enumeration period of the Census of 1880. The mill was capitalized at $1,000. Work required five male employees, two of whom were children under the age of sixteen. Broxson paid his workers seventy-five cents per each ten-hour day, spending $200 total in wages during the four months of mill operations. The power plant consisted of a 20-horsepower steam engine with a boiler. Cutting equipment included a circular saw. From raw materials and mill supplies worth $700, Payne's mill produced 100,000 feet of lumber for a gross value of $1,200. The mill did no remanufacturing. Broxson did his own logging near the mill.
Aldrich noted that Broxson served as the county surveyor in 1892.