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of merchantable timber and the character of the topography. Farm 

 lands in the vicinity of Monroe, Marshville, and Waxhaw sell for $35 to 

 $75 an acre, while 5 to 10 miles from these towns the price ranges be- 

 tween $20 and $40 an acre. 



The variety of soils, favorable topographic position, and healthful 

 climate of Union County are favorable to the development of a highly 



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-A typical forest growth of pines. 



diversified agriculture. All the soils in the county have clay subsoils, 

 which underlie the surface at no great depth. This permits the land 

 to be built u]) to a high state of productiveness and to be easily main- 

 tained in that coundition. 



SOILS AND THEIR ORIGIN. 



Union County lies wholly within the Piedmont plateau ])rovInce, and 

 all of its soils, with the exception of small strips of bottom land, have 

 been formed through the process of decay from the underlying rocks. 

 This is one of the so-called slate counties of the State, and about 90 



