J. S. Hunt Lumber Company was reported by The Gulf Coast Lumberman to be moving some of its machinery to its new sawmill at Jasper. It is not known if the mill even operated under the Hunt Lumber name. It was not listed in the 1928 edition of the Southern Lumberman's Directory of American Saw Mills and Planing Mills.
According to The Gulf Coast Lumberman, the J. S. Hunt Lumber Company was incorporated in 1926 at Nacogdoches with a stock capitalization of $30,000. The officers were A. W. Hunt, L. H. Hunt, and L. C. Hunt. It may have used The Farmers & Merchants Lumber Company to either do its logging or handle its retailing. J. S. Hunt Lumber Company also had a sawmill at Willis from 1928 to 1957, and one at Grapeland in 1928. Lacy H. Hunt served as president in October 1943.
All of the Hunts were partners in Tilford-Hunt Lumber Company, which owned mills at Chireno (1915) and Nacogdoches (ca. 1905 to 1943).