THE LOWER PINE BELT, OR SAVANNA REGION. 69 



Forests yield staves, shingles, yellow pine lumber and turpentine. Yield 

 of corn, two to twenty-five bushels ; rice, five to fifty bushels ; seed cotton, 

 two hundred to eighteen hundred pounds. Land sells from one dollar 

 and fifty cents to three dollars per acre ; improved land rents from one 

 dollar to three dollars per acre ; lands rented mostly to negro tenants, a 

 house and six to twelve acres given for two days' work in the week for 

 ten months of the year ; day wages, from twenty cents to seventy -five 

 cents ; half of the field work done by whites. 



Suttin's : Near the river, lands rolling, fine, dark sand ; six inches to 

 clay subsoil ; wells twenty -five to fifty feet deep. Further off, low, flat, 

 light sandy soil, one foot to clay subsoil ; wells, four to ten feet deep ; 

 strata of marl rock occur ; white oak staves, shingles, ton timber, &c., 

 abound in the forests, besides turpentine. Yield, without fertilizers, six 

 to twenty bushels corn, one-half to one bale cotton. Turpentine lands 

 sell for one dollar and fifty cents to two dollars per acre ; other lands, 

 three dollars to ten dollars per acre. Day wages, fifty cents to one 

 dollar ; nine-tenths of the field labor white, though the negroes are one 

 and one-half to one of the Avhites. 



Mingo : The uplands level, fine sandy loam, gray to darkish and black, 

 with clay subsoil. Swamps yield fifty to eighty bushels corn per acre ; 

 rice, twenty to fifty bushels ; uplands, ten bushels corn, one-half bale 

 cotton, without manure ; sweet potatoes, one hundred to three hundred 

 bushels per acre. Naval stores, white oak staves, cypress shingles, and 

 other forest products abound. Day wages, fifty cents on farms, one 

 dollar in turpentine business ; land rents from one dollar to two dollars 

 per acre, sells for two dollars to three dollars. Three-fourths of field work 

 by whites. Yellow calcareous sands and marl occur. 



MARION COUNTY. 



Britton^s Neck : Most of the land river swamps or inland swamps, 

 known as bays or back swamps ; not reclaimed, but might be. The up- 

 lands are pine ridges and flats, a gray, sandy loam ; four to twelve inches 

 to subsoil of yellow clay ; produce well. Cypress timber and other swamp 

 woods in abundance ; cattle raising much followed formerly. Day wages, 

 fifty cents ; much, if not most, of the field work done by white men. 



HORRY COUNTY. 



Gallivant'' s Ferry : Three-fourths of the land is a fine, dark gray, sandy 

 loam, six inches to twelve inches to subsoil of red, less frequently of 

 yellow clay, below which pipe clays of various colors occur. One-fourth 



