104 THE UPPER PINE BELT. 



High Hill, {E. D. 37) : Land flat. Soil, a dark clay loam, with clay sub- 

 soil to the depth of the wells, fifteen feet to twenty-five feet, when a yellow 

 sand is found. Growth, pine, oak and hickory. Improved lands sell at 

 eight dollars to twelve dollars, and unimproved at three dollars to six 

 dollars an acre. One-fourth field work performed by whites. 



Antioch, [E. D. 29) : Lands level. Soil, mostly sandy, though clay lands 

 cover a considerable portion of the township; subsoil, red clay and red 

 sand, the latter is best adapted to corn, the former to cotton. Growth, 

 pitch and yellow pine, oak, hickory and dogwood. ISIuch fine shingle 

 and stave timber, and a considerable amount of turpentine produced. 

 Little attention is paid to stock. Several water powers. Farm labor, forty 

 cents to fifty cents ; one-half or more performed by whites. Lands rent 

 at from five hundred pounds to one thousand pounds lint cotton for a 

 one-horse farm (thirty acres). Very healthy. Much uncertainty in se- 

 curing laborers. 



Society Hill, {E. D. 45) : There are clay lands, mostly swamp along the 

 Pee Dee river. The central portion is rolling ; the soil is a fine sandy 

 loam, four inches to subsoil of a yellowish color, turning white on ex- 

 posure ; underlying this is red clay, in the west the gum flats, consisting 

 of fine black sand, have a similar subsoil. Grow^th of uplands, pine, oak, 

 and dogwood ; of the swamps, white oak, ash, and poplar. Crops, aver- 

 age three hundred pounds seed cotton, eight bushels corn, thirty bushels 

 oats per acre ; under good culture 1,500 pounds to 2,000 pounds seed 

 cotton, and twenty bushels to twenty-five bushels corn per acre is made. 

 A sand stone is used for building chimneys. Cedar creek is twenty feet 

 wide, three feet deep, velocity three miles an hour. Wages, fifty cents a 

 da3^ Locality very healthy. Improved lands sell at ten dollars to twelve 

 dollars an acre, unimproved at three dollars to five dollars. 



Palmetto, {E. D. 43) : Lands rather rolling. Soil, of coarse and of fine 

 sand, mixed with clay ; subsoil, red clay ; growth, pine and oak. Crops, 

 five Iiundred pounds seed cotton, eight bushels corn, twenty bushels oats 

 per acre. High Hill creek is twenty feet wide, with good fall ; Black 

 creek is forty feet wide, eight feet deep, velocity four to five miles an hour. 

 Wages, fifty cents a day. No land offered for sale ; rents for about two 

 dollars an acre. 



Marion County, (3d Sup. Dist., 10th United States Census.) 



Cain, {E. D. 87) : Lands level ; soil, fine dark gray sandy loam, six 

 inches to eighteen inches to clay subsoil, beneath which occur strata of 

 marl and clay. Growth, pine, oak, dogwood, cypress, &c. Crops, seven 

 hundred pounds seed cotton, ten bushels corn per acre. Wages of field 



