110 THE RED HILL REGION. 



culture of much of this land is abandoned as a consequence of the disas- 

 ters that have overtaken the rich planters, who formerly lived here, inci- 

 dent to the results of the war. 



The work stock numbers 7,663, not quite five to the square mile, one 

 to every thirty acres of tilled land, and to every six of the population. 



The live stock is 61,569, chiefly hogs; thirty-eight to the square mile, 

 and nearly one to every four acres of cultivated land. 



At Wedgefield, on the Columbia and Wilmington Railroad, these lands 

 are well cultivated and sell as high as twenty-five dollars an acre. At 

 Fort Motte, on the Columbia and Charleston railroad, the prices are fifteen 

 dollars to twenty dollars an acre, and in Millbrook, Aiken, by the South 

 Carolina railroad, they sell for fifteen dollars to twenty dollars, 

 and in Beech island, in the same county, near Augusta, Georgia, 

 the}^ have recently brought over forty dollars an acre. The great 

 body of these lands, however, lying off the railroads, are to be had 

 at much lower prices. Large tracts, by no means inferior to those 

 already mentioned, except as regards accessibilit}- , are offered at from 

 three dollars to ten dollars an acre. It is remarkable that mere accessi- 

 bility should affect prices to this degree. For, while the lands themselves 

 produce every variety of crop, they are well adapted to cotton, of which 

 a two-horse wagon can transport as much as two hundred dollars worth 

 at one load ; the roads are excellent and there is scarcely a point that is 

 a day's journey removed from a market. That not one-fourth of these 

 lands, capable of supporting, in health and abundance, as large a popula- 

 tion as land anywhere, are under cultivation, illustrates how much is 

 wanting in capital and population to develope the resources of this section. 



