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ash, walnut, pino, hickory. Lands rent for two bales cotton per one-liorse 

 farm. There is a gold mine, not worked now, however. The Lockhart 

 shoals furnish a great water power. The river is one-fifth of a mile wide, 

 eight feet deep, and has a fall of forty-seven feet in one-half a mile. 

 Field labor paid fifty cents per day ; one-half performed by whites. 



BossviUe Toivnship {E. D. 43) : Northeastern corner, blackjack land and 

 level ; the balance hilly and broken. Soils, gray, sandy loam, red and 

 mulatto clay loam. Subsoil, mostly red clay and grayish pipe clay. 

 Growth, a variety of oaks, hickory, blackjack and old field pines. Crops, 

 ten bushels to twelve bushels corn, four bushels to five bushels wheat, 

 fifteen bushels to twenty bushels oats, and three hundred pounds to four 

 hundred pounds cotton an acre. Sixty bushels of corn have been made 

 on my place. Lands for sale at ten dollars to twelve dollars an acre ; 

 rent for three bales of cotton of four hundred pounds to the mule, and 

 less. Much land could be rented for clearing it up. Most of it having 

 been thrown out is grown up in old field pines. Good building granite is 

 found. An immense water power furnished by the old State canal on 

 Catawba river. Farm wages, fifty cents a day ; one-fourth performed by 

 whites. 



LewisviUe Toivnship {E. D. 42) : Broken into hills and ridges, about one 

 hundred and fifty feet higher than the valleys of the numerous streams 

 crossing it. ooils, a gray sandy loam, and a red clay loam, resting on 

 red clay. In the northwest the blackjack lands have a grayish or whitish 

 pipe clay subsoil. Growth, many varieties of oaks, pine, chestnut, walnut, 

 and chinquapin. Cedar is taking the place of the old field pine. Little 

 land for sale. Most of it is forest. Abundant water powers. A large 

 cotton factory is being built on Fishing creek. 



Chester Townshij) (E. D. 36) : Northwestern portion a light, sandy soil. 

 Growth thirty years ago was chestnut and chinquapin. They have died 

 out, and been replaced by oak and hickory. Once considered worthless, 

 these lands, with fertilizers, now produce heavy crops of cotton, and sell 

 for from ten dollars to fifteen dollars an acre. The middle portion is the 

 blackjack lands, level and flat, requiring ditching. The blackjack is 

 disappearing, and being replaced by oaks. These lands are adapted to 

 corn and clover and the grasses. With ditching, stable manure, kainit, 

 to prevent rust, they make good cotton crops. Spring water is limestone. 

 They may be bought for from two dollars to five dollars an acre. The 

 southern portion is mulatto or rod land. It is broken and hilly ; hard to 

 cultivate ; rents to negroes for seventy-five cents to one dollar an acre. 

 Farm wages, from forty cents to fifty cents a day ; one-fourth performed 

 by whites. 



