Emmett Landry and possibly B. F. Bonner built a mill in 1898 or 1899 in Jefferson County. American Lumberman reported in January 1899 that the the Bonner & Landry mill was nearly built and would be soon in operation, and again 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. 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 and 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.