66 THE LOWER PINE BELT, OR SAVANNA REGION. 



Cam : Lands level, flat, nio.^tly elay loam, sometimes sandy, yellow 

 clay subsoil. Corn yields ten to thirty bushels per acre ; rice, ten to forty 

 bushels per acre. Much land is rented, little for sale, price two dollars to 

 four dollars per acre. Much ash, poplar and cypress timber in Four-Hole 

 swamp. Little attention paid to stock. Day wages, forty cents. 



George's : Lands level ; two-thirds fine sandy loam, light gray color, four 

 to six inches to sandy subsoil, resting on clay. Corn yields ten bushels, 

 rice fifteen bushels, and sugar cane 300 gallons syrup per acre. One-third 

 in swamps and bays unreclaimed. Price of land $2 to $5 per acre. Clay 

 for brick. Three water-powers, one working, the other two abandoned. 

 Wages forty to fifty cents a day. One-third of field work done by whites. 



Gloven' : Fifteen per cent, pine uplands, barely rolling enough for good 

 drainage. Soil coarse sandy loam, resting on red clay, with a white coarse 

 sand below it. Ten per cent, abandoned rice fields. Soil, vegetable mould 

 two to four feet deep, resting on stiff blue clay ; easily reclaimable by 

 cleaning out the old canals and ditches, which, while serving to drain 

 and irrigate the land, would also give water transportation for the pro- 

 duce. Seventy-five per cent, swamps and hammocks unreclaimed, but 

 very fertile, yielding, when fresh, fifty bushels corn per acre, and yield- 

 ing now twenty-five bushels to thirty bushels corn, after being worked 

 every year without manure since 1852. Nearly all the land owned by 

 non-residents, and for sale ; rents when improved for two dollars per acre. 

 Sells for cash at from fifty cents to two dollars per acre. Lower portion 

 underlaid by phosphate rock, but not developed. Stock do well, but little 

 attention is paid to it. Wages fifty cents a day. One-tenth of the farms 

 worked by white men. — H. C. Glover, Walterboro, S. C. 



CHARLESTON COUNTY. 



St. Thomas and St. Denis : Once one of the wealthiest and most popu- 

 lous parishes of the Colony and State, now scarcely one per cent, of the 

 land under cultivation. Uplands level, light, sandy loam, resting on 

 clay. Natural growth — pine, live oak, palmetto. Swamp lands unre- 

 claimed, except the rice plantations on Cooper river. Industries — three 

 brick -yards, five turpentine stills, and wood for fuel boated to Charleston. 

 Phosphate rock abounds in AVando river and the adjacent swamps, not 

 developed. 



St. John's Berkeley : Much of the land unreclaimed swamp ; there is a 

 belt of open prairie near the Santee, running from Orangeburg to the 

 St. Stephen's line. Soil, light, fine sandy loam, resting on yellow clay ; at 

 six inches to twelve inches depth below chalk and marl are found. Lime 

 rock crops out on Santee river, that hardens on exposure and might be 



