68 THE LOWER PINE BELT, OR SAVANNA REGION. 



own field work ; labor only to be had by tlie job or by the day, at forty 

 cents to one dollar. Land sells cheap for cash ; on time at from $4 to $6 

 per acre. 



Manning : Surface level ; two-tliirds uplands, fine dark sandy loam, rest- 

 ing on subsoil of yellow sand with yellow clay at one to twelve feet, beneath 

 which a blue clay is found ; alluvial bottoms. Virgin upland soil yields 

 fifteen bushels corn, or six hundred pounds seed cotton, or two hundred and 

 fifty bushels potatoes per acre. Price of land, one dollar to twenty dollars 

 per acre. Besides clays, kaolin, etc., there are peats of good quality, marl 

 and lime rock. Wages of day labor, fifty cents to one dollar. One-third 

 of farm work done by whites. 



Sammy Swamp: 1st. Light, dark gray, sandy loam. 2d. Reddish 

 clay and sand loam, with clay subsoil. 3d. Low, flat, sandy loam, with 

 a gray clay subsoil ; wet, but produces well when drained. No. 2, the 

 most productive, yielding, with manure, two thousand pounds of seed 

 cotton. Price of land, one dollar to ten dollars per acre. Day wages, 

 forty cents to one dollar ; one-half the field labor performed by whites. 

 Marl, as a shell rock, underla3^s this township at a depth of five feet. 



WILLIAMSBURG COUNTY. 



Hips Township : Lands low, flat, level ; uplands fine, dark gray, sandy 

 loam, with yellow sand subsoil ; clay found at a depth of eighteen inches ; 

 swamp lands unreclaimed ; yield of cotton, two hundred to four hundred 

 pounds per acre ; corn, eight bushels ; rice, fifteen bushels ; rent for one 

 dollar and fifty cents per acre ; can be bought for cash at three dollars to 

 four dollars per acre ; two water-powers unimproved ; amount of white 

 labor increasing ; day wages fifty cents ; abundance of yellow pine, oak, 

 cypress, etc., for lumber, staves and shingles. 



Scranton : Low, level lands, with fine, gray, sandy soil ; subsoil of 

 yellow sand, beneath which is fine, stiff clay, overlying quicksand ; four 

 per cent, under cultivation ; yield — corn ten bushels ; rice, twenty bushels ; 

 potiitoes, one to four hundred bushels ; cotton, eight hundred to twelve 

 hundred pounds in the seed ; price, from one dollar and fifty cents to 

 tJiree dollars per acre ; rents for one dollar, or one-fourth of the crop. 

 Strata of marl occur ; some valuable water-powers ; turpentine, shingles 

 and staves are gotten ; abundant timber, including black walnut ; wages, 

 a day, fifty cents for men, thirty cents for women ; five-sixths of the work 

 done by whites. 



Camp Ridge: Lands low, level ; large swanps unreclaimed; upland 

 fine, sandy loam, gray and dark, with yellow sand subsoil, under which 

 occurs clay and sometimes strata of marl ; about one per cent, cultivated. 



