i6G THE PIEDMONT REGION. 



to ten dollars an acre, or on shares. Building granite and soapstone oc- 

 cur. Gold, silver, lead, copper, zinc and iron are found. Longcane creek 

 furnishes several good water poAvers. Lucerne, clover, blue, orchard and 

 timothy grass are found to do well. No local diseases. One-half the 

 field work performed by whites. 



Calhoun Mills TownsJa'p (E. D. 6) : The flatwoods are low, flat land. 

 Soil, a black loam, resting on a tenacious yellow clay, containing masses 

 of carbonate of iron, which, when broken off by the plow and mixed 

 with soil, give rise to the appellation, " Buckshot " lands ; underlaid by 

 decomposed felsitic and dioritic porphyry, that becomes hard in descend- 

 ing. Growth, heavily-bodied post oak and scaly bark hickory. Old 

 fields grow up in persimmon and sassafras, later, in old-field pine. Lands 

 wet, require draining ; make good corn crops. Clover, peas and the grasses 

 do well ; but cotton rusts. Surrounding the flatwoods, like the rim of a 

 cup, are the rolling, hilly, red lands. Growth, oak, pine and hickory. 

 Some of these lands, under cultivation since the Be volution, with little 

 manure, will produce good crops still; although they have been poorly 

 farmed, and are much washed. I have made thirty bushels of corn, forty 

 bushels oats, fifteen hundred pounds of seed cotton to the acre : but this 

 is above the average. Excellent bottom lands are found on Little and 

 Savannah rivers, and the small streams. Spring-water and shallow wells, 

 impregnated with iron and sulphur. Farms may be bought at from two 

 dollars to ten dollars an acre ; if well improved will sell higher. Traces 

 of gold, copper and antimony have been found. Eurite furnishes blocks 

 of excellent building material, a very fine granite, hammondite occurs, 

 and soapstone. Farm wages, ten dollars a month, with rations, garden, 

 the privilege of a cow and of poultry raising. 



Anderson County. 



Anderson Court House (E. D. 18): Level in the north and east; rolling 

 to the south. Soil : 1st. A stiff, sticky, red clay, with deep red subsoil. 

 2d. Red, loamy soil, mixed with fine sand, and having a red subsoil. 3d. 

 Gray sandy soil, with yellowish subsoil. Growth, oaks of all kinds, 

 liickor)' and pine. Crops, cotton, a bale to three acres ; corn, ten bushels ; 

 oats, ten bushels to fifteen bushels an acre. Some land for sale, at ten 

 dollars to fifteen dollars an acre. Rents for one five hundred pound bale 

 of cotton for every ten acres. Farm labor paid fifty cents a day ; one- 

 half of it performed by whites. Has forty acres set in clover," orchard 

 grass and red top, which does well. 



Garvin Toumsliip {E. D. 27) : Land elevated and rolling, with some flats. 

 Soil : 1st. A gray or brown sandy loam, on red or yellow cla}'. 2d. Red 



