The Bradford-Hicks Lumber Company built a plant thirteen miles east of Houston. The new sawmill town was called both Dyersdale and Dyersburg; it was situated on the Beaumont, Sour Lake & Western Railroad. The company officers were W. R Bradford, president; S. B. Hicks, vice-president; and W. A. Field, secretary, treasurer, and general manager. Field, a long-time lumberman from Leesville, Louisiana, was responsible for constructing the 35,000-feet-capacity plant. The planing mill was purchased from Hall & Brown Machine Company of St. Louis. Other equipment included dry sheds, steam dry kilns, and a three and a half-mile tram road into fifty-five million feet of standing timber that they company owned close to the mill. The firm of Sigler & Snell was contracted to do the logging.
The mill town facilities consisted of twenty brand-new houses, a 30-room hotel, and a commissary.
This plant probably became the property of the Lodwick Lumber Company sometime before 1915.