• The New Orleans Times says hoop poles are selling at $105/1000 and it exhorts Farmers to raise them. Cannelton Reporter, Sept. 20, 1873.
• More boats being built than ever previous in Clark Twp.
• A.J. Adye building two boats to transport lumber. H.H. Pyle building one for staves at Adyeville. 7.J. Robinson & Elias Lanman each building a boat for hoop poles. Dr. Gallespie has a stave boat at Marshall Dixon’s on Anderson and will load it at Rowley Ford. Starks Minor has one at hie saw nill to be loaded with lumber. Daniel Van Winkle to run a lumber boat this season. Several others below Adyeville for hoop poles, lumber & staves. Cannelton Reporter, Nov. 15, 1813 •
• Walnut lumber of Indiana in great demand even in Europe. Standing trees on a half section in Miami County sold for $17,000. Enquirer, Nov. 29, 1873 .
• Troy: George Marks is at Evansville this week with another boat load of staves & hoop poles. The tight times can’t stop hoop poles & saw logs from coming out of Anderson, when we have such rains as we have had for two weeks Past. Jim Jackson is said to have lost about $700 worth of Raw logs ‘in the last freshet, but thinks he can pick the most of them up along the shore between here & Evansville.
• Abe Lasher … is working with a big raft of saw logs in Anderson. Enquirer, Dec. 20, 1873.
• Capt. O’Neill brought out of Poison Creek two boat loads of staves, while Messrs. Welch, Carr & Trainer brought out a large number of saw logs.
• A Sad Accidents Virgil Fleming, son of R.C. Fleming of Anderson Township, and a young man named Cash, were cutting down trees last Saturday & one tree lodged against another & they commenced cutting the latter tree down. When the lodged tree began to fall both started to get out of the way when young Fleming caught his feet in some brush & fell down, Cash tried to pull him away & he got partly up & half bent started to go the other way, but had barely started when the lodged tree struck him on the neck & crushed him to death. His neck was broken & breast crushed in, and a portion of the tree had to be cut off in order to get his mangled remains out. The young ~en were 18 years of age •••• It is said by Cash that if he had remained where he first fell, he would not have been hurt at all Enquirer, May 1, 1875.
• Terrible Accident: A man whose name we could not learn, while engaged in rolling & barging logs in Anderson Township last week, was accidentally caught by a rolling log & confined some two hours before being discovered & extricated. One of his legs was found burned to the bone & has since been amputated. His Buffering can better be imagined than described. Cannelton Reporter, May 8, 1815.