Timbering & Logging News

• Troy News: Bergenroth Brothers are towing saw logs with their steamer to Evansville, for Eberhart & Wright. Indiana Pocket, IN., Sept. 26, 1885.
• Foster’s Ridge: farmers in the stave business. Enquirer & Reporter, Oct. 24, 1885.
• Troy Items: The stave business in this section seems not yet to have died out, for at present shipments of staves are made daily at our landings. Enquirer & Reporter, Nov. 28, 1885.
• Troy News: James Jackson was fortunate, in getting his 3,700 logs into the early market at Evansville, thus securing fancy prices for his timber. Indiana Pocket, Rockport, IN., May 22, 1886
• Clark: Business throughout the township is on the decline. The days of flatboating & running saw logs have been chronicled as past historical events of the land of Clark. The old water mills on Anderson River yet stand, not as useful & necessary “corn crackers”, but as feeble wooden monuments to the memories of the hardy pioneers, who erected them. Portable mills and stave buckers have worked up all the choice timber and nothing remains but “scrub Oakes”, which is being manufactured into railroad ties. Enquirer & Reporter, Dec. 4, 1886.
• Clark: Staves hard to come by, but still some saw logging & hoop poles being taken out with water in Anderson high. Enquirer & Reporter, Mar.19, 1887.
• Apalona: The stave makers started up on A. Lasher’s land. Abe has some good timber yet, and will probably have 75,000 more staves.
• The Cunningham noys are sawing for tall timber now. They will saw all old logs in the country & pull for Canada or some other seaport. Enquirer & Reporter, Apr. 7, 1888.
• Anderson Twp: There will be over 50,000 staves in the yard of James Cassidy. The Enquirer, Dec. 22, 1888.
• Anderson Twp: John Litkring and others are hauling staves. Jesse Bailey and one or two others from town are doing the same. Cannelton Enquirer, May 4, 1889.
• Silas Wheatley has about finished hauling the staves from the Kraus Cannelton Enquirer, May 11, 1889.
• Ranger: The stave timber is nearly all made up on the Tom Morris land.
• There are several hands at work there. Cannelton Enquirer, May 25, 1889.
• Mr. Samuel Basinger, one of the substantial farmers of Anderson Twp., was in town this week, interviewing our people, and speculating on the rise in the Ohio river & its influence on the logs in the Anderson. Cannelton Enquirer, Jun. 8, 1889.

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