And the “ Great Carolina Marl Bed.” 85 
ATLANTIC PHOSPHATE COMPANY. 
The Atlantic Phosphate Company is located also on 
the Ashley; has a large capital of $200,000, and is 
now engaged in erecting extensive works for the 
manufacture of Superphosphates. They will be ready 
to supply consumers for the next crop. 
STONO PHOSPHATE COMPANY. 
, 
The Stock of the Stono Phosphate Company is 
owned mainly by merchants and planters in the inte- 
rior of South Carolina and the adjoining States ; it 
has also a large capital of $350,000, and expects to 
prepare a first-class fertilizer. Their work-mills are 
now being erected on the banks of the Ashley. 
Our esteemed friend and late colleague, Professor 
Lewis R. Gibbes, eminent for his scientific attainments | 
is the Chemist of this Company, and is well known 
and appreciated throughout the country. 
Messrs. J. D. Aiken & Co., are the business mana- 
gers. 
