• Lillpop is squeezing out every nickel for a big run of saw logs. Cannelton Enquirer & Reporter, Oct. 24, 1818.
• Capt. Burkett cuts loose his craft on Saturday next for New Orleans. His cargo is staves this time. He wants something that will winter without freezing. Fred Rounds will act as pilot & Ed Latimer as cook. Cannelton Enquirer & Reporter, Dec. 3, 1878.
• Mike came in on Tuesday to tell us that the hoop pole business in Clark Twp. is just booming. One boat with 80,000 on board is waiting at Adye¬ville and two more, equally as large, at Huffman’s Mill, waiting for a’ land slide. Cannelton Enquirer & Reporter, Dec. 12, 1878.
• Adyeville: There has been a considerable rise in Anderson for but the ice prevented a trip for the merry boatmen. Cannelton Reporter, Jan. 30, 1879.
• Adyeville: Mr. Ed Guedry pulled out for Dixie on the 27th of last month – cargo, hoop poles. Cannelton Enquirer & Reporter, Mar. 13, 1879.
• Black walnut logs are being sent from Jasper over the Rockport & Cincinnati railroad to Rockport, and then shipped east. Enquirer & Reporter, Sept. 4, 1879.
• Adyeville: The Adyeville craft made it safely over the dam, poles were all on board the water fell. The first rise will land a hoop poles at the mouth of Anderson.
• Saw logs by the thousands are being rolled in Anderson, a few miles Above Minor’s Mill. Enquirer & Reporter, Jan. 29, 1880.
• A.J. Adye’s boat, containing 70,000 hoop poles still remains at her moor¬ings below Huffman’s Mill waiting for more rain. What an unquenchable thirst the man must have. Nothing but rain for eight weeks, and sti11 his cry is Water! Water! Enquirer & Reporter, Feb. 5, 1880.
• William Hall, 22, drowned on Deer Creek in trying to manage a raft of logs. Enquirer & Reporter, Feb. 26, 1880.
• Anderson Valley: Our only chance for making money this Spring is staves; there is no call for hoop poles. Enquirer & Reporter, Mar. 11, 1880.
• Miller & Weedman are stripping the forest of all the good poplar timber. They expect to drift into the Evansville market with 1200 as nice logs as ever floated down Anderson. Enquirer & Reporter, Nov. 11, 1880.
• Anderson is full of saw logs & lumber rafts & St. Meinrad is full of shingle blocks, all from the land of Clark & still we have a few bushes left. Enquirer & Reporter, Dec. 23, 1880.
• In Spencer County near Masterson’s Mill a man was killed in getting out staves. A tree split and fell upon G. Betz killing him. Enquirer ~ Reporter, Nov. 3, 1881.
• John A. Taylor of Anderson Twp. killed in felling a tree. Enquirer & Reporter, Mar. 16, 1882.
• Clark Twp: Thousands of saw logs now crown the banks of the classic Anderson & the rippling Middle Fork. This business appearance must undoubt¬edly be attributed to the ever restless spirits of Messrs. Weecinan & Miller. Cannelton Journal, Dec. 15, 1883.