The Southern Industrial and Lumber Review reported that seven sawmills operated along Buffalo Bayou in 1908. The Long Reach Lumber Company, organized that year, with J. M. McLaughlin, president; I. D. Thompson, superintendent; and George A. Byers, secretary, had offices in the First National Bank Building of Houston. It was a new mill, still being finished, with dry kilns and sheds planned for construction in the future. The circular mill was built to cut 30,000 feet daily. Sawtimber transportation was by water and rail. Lumber transportation would be primarily by water, with the mill equipped with slides for loading ships. Southern Lumberman noted that the capital stock had been authorized at $50,000.