100 THE UPPER PINE BELT, 



field work performecl by whites. Mueli of the land is rented for five 

 hundred pounds lint cotton for twenty-five acres. 



Willistcm, {E. D. 37): The level lands are a sandy loam, with clay sub- 

 soil within two feet. The rolling lands are a clay soil. Clay extends 

 beneath the soil and subsoil to depth of twenty to sixty feet, as shown in 

 wells. Growth, yellow pine, oak, hickory. Crops, ten to twelve bushels 

 corn, eight hundred to one thousand pounds seed cotton; oats, twenty- 

 five to thirty bushels per acre. Little attention paid to stock. Edisto 

 river is a clear stream, one hundred feet wide, six feet deep, velocity, tw^o 

 to three mites an hour. Two mill streams empty into the Edisto. Wages 

 of field labor, six dollars to ten dollars, and rations, per month. One- 

 third ol field work performed by whites. Very little improved land for 

 sale. It rents from two dollars to three' dollars per acre, supplies and 

 rents secured by a lien on the crop. 



Orangeburg County, (2d Sup. Dist.) 



Hebron, {E. D. 143) : Some valuable swamp lands on the North Edisto 

 river and its tributaries. Uplands rolling sometimes, but generally level, 

 without being flat. Soil, mostly a fine sandy loam, subsoil sandy, in some 

 places clay. Growth, pine, with large red oak in places. Crops, ten to 

 thirty bushels corn per acre, four hundred and fifty pounds lint cotton to two 

 acres, thirty to thirty-five bushels rice per acre. Some business in tur- 

 pentine, shingles, staves and timber is done. Stock is not, but might be 

 raised profitably. Wages of field labor, forty to fifty cents a day. One- 

 fourth of it performed by whites. North Edisto affords a large water- 

 power, and there are two flour and four saw mills on its tributaries. Land 

 rents for two dollars an acre, or one-fourth of the crop. There are some 

 tracts for sale at five dollars an acre. 



Liberty, {E. D. 144) : Large bodies of swamp lands on the North Edisto, 

 consisting of deep, black vegetable mould, resting on clay. Little of it 

 improved. The uplands are elevated, fine, dark, gray, saridy loam, six to 

 eight inches to subsoil of yellow clay, underlaid by chalk and clay. 

 Growth on uplands, pine, oak, hickory and dogwood. As much as 2,000 

 pounds of seed cotton, thirty bushels corn, and sixty bushels oats per 

 acre has been made on these lands, but the usual average is much less. 

 Wages of farm labor, forty cents a day. One-half to two-thirds of it per- 

 formed by whites. Very little land for sale; prices, three dollars' to ten 

 dollars an acre. The poorer lands are rented at from one dollar to two 

 dollars an acre. The locality is very healthy. 



Willoiv, {E. D. 154): Some very fertile, but mostly unreclaimed, swamps 

 on the South Edisto and its tributaries. Uplands level, line, gray, sandy 



