Timbering & Logging News

• The Adyeville lumber yard is at present crowded with lumber, and 600 or 700 logs yet in the creek ready for sawing. Enquirer & Reporter, Aug. 30, 1871.
• Clark Twp: Saw logging has begun & the keen crack of the teamster’s lash is heard on almost every peak in Clark Township. Enquirer & Reporter, Sept. 13, 1877.
• Adyevilles Adyeville 18 blockaded with saw logs, hoop poles & Fall pippins. Enquirer & Reporter, Oct. 25, 1877.
• Adyeville: ••• to see the lumber yard, hoop pole shaving house, the hundreds of huge poplar logs, and the thousands of hickory poles.
• Mr. George P. Robertson is now at Rockport loading his boat with hoop poles & from what we can learn, he will in a few days be “plowing along” the feathery crest of the Father of Waters. Jabes goes as cook. Enquirer & Reporter, Nov. 29, 1877.
• Foster’s Ridge: The saw log merchants are gleaning the land of poplar & walnut timber. Enquirer & Reporter, Dec. 20, 1877.
• Foster’s Ridge: At a low estioate there will be 10,000 saw logs put into Anderson and its tributaries this season. Enquirer & Reporter, Jan. 3, 1878.
• William S. Minor’s lumber rafts lie high & dry near St. Meinrad.
• Mr. A.J. idye will have two boats laden with hoop poles ready to move down Anderson the first rise; also three rafts of lumber, and near 2000 choice poplar logs. It will be the largest fleet that was ever afloat in Anderson, owned by one individual. Enquirer & Reporter, Jan. 24, 1878.
• Foster’s Ridge: Mr. Abe Lasher was very seriously hurt, while hauling saw logs, yesterday, near Bristow. The wagon wheel caught one of his legs between it & a gatepost, thereby fracturing the tibia, one of the bones of his leg & otherwise injuring him.
• Adyeville: A.J. Adye’s boats are anchored in Huffnan’s mill pond. Another hoop pole boat has been built at this place. The tine occupied in building the boat was just 6 days, taking all the material from the stump. Enquirer & Reporter, Mar. 14, 1878.
• Mr. A.J. Adye has his floating fortune in Anderson yet. May the rain, descend in torrents. Enquirer & Reporter, Apr. 1, 1878
• Haggedorn District: P.J. Barbre returned last week from a trip down the river, and reports hoop poles a slow sale; but I think he must have raised a pile somewhere, as he has gone on a trip to Missouri, on a gold smelling expedition, and taken Squire Hemphill along with him to carry the witch rod. Enquirer & Reporter, May 9, 1878. ‘
• Adyeville: N.D. Fuller is making a grand call for hoop poles & will have a boat afloat on the waters of Anderson at this place.
• Ed Guedry is going to invest his surplus cash in two hoop pole boats, which he expects to load at Huffman’s Mill.

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