78 Phosphate Rocks of South Carolina, 
Phosphate-rock, the Phosphate fever became “ EPI 
DEMIC’’ in those cities. 
There were many persons who believed these rocks 
to be érue bone, and the wild reports circulating con- 
firmed them in this idea. 
The teeth of sharks and other animals obtained 
from the rocks were magnified in size to a marvellous 
degree ; some of the sharks were reported, on she best 
authority, to have been two hundred feet long! and 
the teeth represented to be one foot long, and to weigh 
ten pounds each! The cargo was said to be a// bones. 
For the satisfaction of those who have never seen 
the fossils from these rocks, we can say, that out of 
forty thousand specimens of sharks’ teeth taken from 
the Ashley Basin, and examined by us, the largest 
specimen was six and a half inches long, about four 
and a half wide, and weighed two pounds. And, 
again we repeat, ¢he rocks are not bones / 
THE WANDO MINING AND MANUFACTUR- 
ING COMPANY. 
The Wando Mining and Manufacturing Company 
was first organized by Mr. John R. Dukes, the Presi- 
dent of the Company. 
From information received through Col. L. M. 
Hatch, before the war, the rock on Ashley River was 
brought to the notice of Dr. St. J. Ravenel, then 
Chemist of the Company, who, in 1867, analyzed it, 
and found 10 to 15 per cent. Phosphate of Lime; and 
