The American Lumberman reported in the summer of 1899 that Emmet Landry was building a mill on Brake's Bayou. It is not known if this mill was completed. By 1906, Landry's mill was reported, by the American Lumberman again, a few miles west of Beaumont on the tracks of the Beaumont, Sour Lake & Western. It was conducting tramming and extending its facility. Southern Industrial and Lumber Review in its “Lumber Mills of Texas” article in September 1906 identified Emmett Landry's sawmill and that of the Industrial Lumber Company at Landry's Spur as different sawmill sites. They actually were the same sawmill, cutting about 30,000-ft daily. The confusion was that Industrial Lumber Company held the contract for lumber manufactured at Landry's site but did not own the mill
The Beaumont Enterprise of 12 May 1907 noted that the Landry sawmill, located at Landry Station, five miles west of Beaumont on the Beaumont, Sour Lake & Western railroad, had been sold to E. E Gilmore of Port Arthur. The mill could cut 25,000 feet daily and the planer could manufacture 40,000 feed of finished lumber daily. The Switch had a population of 250, a work force of about 50, a short tram road, and stumpage reserve of about fifteen million feet.
The company was forced into receivership in 1908, according to the Southern Lumberman.