ELISHA MITCHELL SCIENTIFIC SOCIETY. Ill 



^\\o reports of this survey* consisted of four Annual Reports, 

 one for each of the years 185G, 1857, 1858 and 1859. These 

 were published in editions of 2,000 copies each, by the State 

 j)rinter, and distributed in accordance with the following resolu- 

 tion :t 



Resolved, That two tlionsand copies of the Report be printed; that each 

 member of the Senate and of the Honse of Representatives be allowed one 

 copy, and that tire remaining copies be placed in the hands of the Governor, 

 and that he be requested to have twelve copies deposited in the Legislative 

 Library, two copies in each college and Public Library in the State, and the 

 remaining co[)ies in the hands of the booksellers of Columbia and Charleston, 

 ?ind in one store at each Court House in the State, to b-e sold at fifty cents a copy, 

 tlie same commissions to be allowed ihera as on the Statutes at Large, and they 

 would further recommend that the copies now on hand;}: shall be sold at a like 

 price. 



Of the Report for 1856 at first only 1,000 copies were printed, 

 but at the session of the General Assembly for 1857 1,000 addi- 

 tional copies were oi^ered, and were printed as a second (and 

 somewhat revised) edition, in 1858. 



During the civil war many copies of these reports were lost 

 In the burning of Cohirabia and other towns, and they are now 

 exceediutrlv rare. 



The economic results of the Lieber survey were mainly in the 

 line of mining enterprises. His investigations of the character- 

 istics and distribution of metalliferous veins in the gold regions 

 of South Carolina (and the neighboring portions of North Caro- 

 lina), and the best methods of working the same, helped in 

 bringing about the successful working of a number of these 

 mines, such as the Brewer, Hale, Dorn, etc., and would have 

 resulted tiiuch more advantageously in the development of these 

 mines but for the untimely interruption of all such undertak- 

 ings by the civil war. There was then every indication of 

 growing industrial progress. Mr. Lieber's discussion of agri- 

 cultural and other industrial matters in his reports exercised a 

 beneficial influence, through the ''hill country" especially. 



*See Bibliography, p. 114. 

 fThird Annual Report of S. C. (1858), p. III. 



jCopies of the Reports for 185fi and 18-57 had formerly been sold "at cost," distributed 

 as above stated. 



