86 Phosphate Rocks of South Carolina, 
FARMERS’ FERTILIZER COMPANY OF 
SOUTH GAROLINA. 
This Company has in the course of erection mills 
and machinery, at their location on the Ashley River, 
outside of the city limits, and propose to erect Acid 
Chambers during the spring of 1871. 
The capacity of the proposed mills will be about 
15,000 tons of Manipulated Fertilizer per annum. 
The capital of the Company will be $150,000. They 
have under their control lands for mining purposes 
which indicate a yield of 1,000 tons per acre, the 
stratum varying in thickness from 18 to 36 inches. 
They will manipulate for the next cotton crop. 
The Company is composed, to a great extent, of plan- 
ters residing in this and the adjoining States. 
THE PALMETTO MINING AND MANUFAC- 
TURING COMPANY, 
The Palmetto Mining and Manufacturing Company 
own about one thousand acres of Phosphate lands, 
situate on Ashley River ; employ about one hundred 
operatives, and expect to wash fifteen thousand tons 
of Rock annually. Their works are now in course of 
erection, and have already dug twenty-five hundred 
tons of Phosphate-rocks. T. D. Eason, Esq., is the 
President, 
