Burkitt & Barnes sold their mill at Midline Switch, in Montgomery County, in 1899. They next were involved in a mill at Benford in Polk County, which they sold to West Lumber Company in January 1905. Burkitt & Barnes were listed as being manufacturers of lumber in Houston in the Reference Book of the Lumbermen's Credit Association, January 1905 and in 1907. The Southern Industrial and Lumber Review reported that seven sawmills operated along Buffalo Bayou in 1908. The Burkitt & Barnes Sawmill Company was managed by D. G. Barrow who supervised thirty men. Equipment included a circular sawmill, a planer, and five Arkansas dry kilns. By 1909, the plant was in the hands of W. H. Borders & Company. An article in July 1909 of the Southern Industrial and Lumber Review reported that a fire destroyed about $6,000 in lumber as well as the $500 which the old dry kilns were worth.