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soil of yellow sand and clay. Growth, pine, oak and hickory. Crops, 

 five hundred pounds seed cotton, ten bushels corn per acre. A 

 black rock found that is used for building to some extent. Forest 

 products are turpentine and shingles. Several mill sites. Wages for 

 field work, fifty cents a day. All kinds of stock do well. Land sells at 

 from three dollars to twelve dollars ; rents from one dollar to five dollars 

 per acre. 



Concord, {E. D. 114) : Lands low and level, much of it swamp ; up- 

 lands dark gray calcareous sands, with clay subsoil at depth of eight 

 inches to ten inches that extends to the depth of the wells, fifteen 

 feet to twenty feet. Marl occurs. Wages, fifty cents a day for field labor, 

 one-fourth of which is performed by whites. Little land for sale ; rents 

 for one dollar and fifty cents to two dollars per acre. Some chills and 

 fever. 



Mt. Clio, {E. D. 110): Lands level; dark sandy loam, four inches to 

 six inches to subsoil of red clay, beneath which layers of white clay and 

 fine sand are found to the depth wells- are dug, fifteen to thirty feet. 

 Growth, pine, with occasional ridges of oak and hickory. Average crop, 

 four hundred pounds seed cotton. Marl occurs. Scape creek affords 

 fine water power. Wages for farm work, forty cents to fifty cents a 

 day ; one-eighth of field work performed by whites. Lands sell from 

 five dollars to ten dollars, and rent from one dollar to three dollars an 

 acre. 



SJiiloh, {E. D. 123) : Land level. Soil, light, loose sandy loam, four 

 inches to six inches to subsoil of yellow clays underlaid by stiffer clays, 

 containing gravel to the depth of the wells, sixteen feet to twenty feet- 

 Growth, pine, oak and hickory. Crops average eight hundred pounds 

 seed cotton, eight bushels corn ; as high as one and a half bales of cotton 

 per acre has been made. Marl is found under all the swamp lands. 

 Stock raising might be made profitable. Farm labor receives fifty 

 cents a day ; in some portions nearly all the work is done by whites. 

 Land sells from five dollars to eight dollars an acre, rents for one- 

 fourth to one-third of the crop. Sometimes chills and fever, otherwise 

 healthy. 



Bishopvillc, (E. D. 112) : Western or upper part sand hills, the middle 

 undulating, known as " ridge lands ;" tlie lower part level. Soil, light 

 sandy loam, six inches to two feet to red clay subsoil, extending to the 

 depth of the wells, ten to twenty feet. Growth, pine, with occasional 

 spots covered by large red oaks and hickory. Crops, eight hundred 

 pounds seed cotton, ten bushels corn, but the tenant system has so dimin- 

 ished the yield that an average can not be stated. Wages, fifty cents for 

 field labor, more than one-half of which is performed by whites. Land 



