Lumbering continued to be the mainstay of the district. The McDonald Brothers continued their operation until about 1890, when their properties were purchased by James Miller but the mill was burned four years later. In 1896 the Nova Scotia Lumber Company bought out Miller, and Henry Elliott erected a new mill. The United Lumber Company (Henry J. Crowell and Pratt) took over in 1902 with Mr. Potts as manager and Duncan Chisholm as mill foreman. A year later it was purchased by the Alfred J. Dickie Lumber Company which also held extensive lands on the Liscomb River. With this company were George McNutt, Newell Corbett and Fred Corbett.(144)
The Scotia Lumber and Shipping Company began at Sherbrooke about 1906 by a Sherbrooke citizen, C. W. Anderson, with the Gunn Brothers as partners.(145) Clarence Wentworth Anderson was the son of Alexander and Caroline McKeen Anderson and had been born at Sherbrooke. He was educated at Pictou Academy, and returned to his native village to carry on operations as a merchant. From 1908 to 1920 he was Warden of St. Mary's Municipality, until he was elected to the provincial House of Assembly as Liberal Candidate for Guysborough County. He was re-elected in 1928 and 1933, and was appointed as a Cabinet minister without portfolio in the Liberal administration of the Honourable Angus L. MacDonald on Sept. 5, 1933, and continued in the cabinet until 1937. He died at Halifax on December 16, 1944.(146)