• Last freshet in Anderson enables our friend Adye to get 400 to 500 logs to his Mill, now ready for sawing. Enquirer, May 22, 1875.
• Foster’s Ridge: Men in this section are mostly employed in cutting & hauling saw logs, shingle blocks & hoop poles & the women in picking geese, selling the feathers to peddlers & preparing corn shucks for their own quarters. Enquirer, Dec. 4, 1815.
• Adyeville is becoming noted as a great lumber market, lumber about all sold out of the lumber yard, and a contract on hand of about 150,000 to be sawed for the Tobacco king J.H. Beckman of Ferdinand. Mr. Beckman has during the summer built one of the finest & largest tobacco houses in this or any other county in the S£ate. Cannelton Enquirer, Jan. 1, 1876.
• Mr. J.D. Huff has put machinery for grinding grain in his mill on Anderson creek. Cannelton Enquirer, Jan. 15, 1816.
• Adyeville: William S. ~inor is building two lumber rafts & will be ready to row them out of the Anderson river the first freshet. Cannelton Enquirer, Jan. 22, 1876.
• Adyeville: Business at Adyeville is beginning to look up. Capt. Robertson of the hoop pole packet, “High Rouster Doddler”, has that packet ready for the Orleans trade, only waiting for water, she is officered as follows:
• Capt. Robertson on the roof & at the helm; Lanman in the office; Red Top, rouster; Sol Kessner, chamber maid, the cargo of the Doddler is about 70,000 hickory sticks. The other Anderson packet, “Storm King”, owned by Capt. Robertson and Lanman, is on the docks, in progress of completion, she will be ready to take her cargo in about 10 days, her officers will be Capt. Frank Robertson on the deck; John Nelson, rouster; Rob Minor, chamber maid, cargo wi11 be hickory sticks. Cannelton Enquirer, Jan. 29, 1876.
• Foster’s Ridge: Farmers here are very busy rolling logs, building and rebuilding fences & preparing ground. Cannelton Enquirer, Mar. 4, 1876.
• Clark Twp. George T. Robinson & Co. left on the 16th instant with a boat load of hoop poles for the southern market. They have another boat load at Huffman’s Mill. The two loads contain 200,000 poles.
• John Taylor & son have a boat load of poles & staves ready to come out.
• Hinton Miller has taken out his boat load of black walnut lumber Middle Fork of Anderson & disposed of it at Tell City, selling it at $30 per M.
• Watts & brother do not invest in boats nor rafts. They have 260,000 staves which they have thrown loose into Anderson river & expect they will float down & be caught at a boom, which they intend to erect at some point. The result is they are scattered all along the banks of the river for miles. That will be found a staving business. Cannelton Reporter, Mar. 25, 1976
• The rain ••• last Wednesday enabled Mr. Robertson to get his boat to Huffman’s Mill. George T. Robertson left Troy last Tuesday with boats for the New Orleans market. Cannelton Enquirer, Apr. 1, 1876.