170 the piedmont region. 



Edgefield County. 



Wise Townshij^ (E. D. 65): Lands elevated and hilly and broken, with 

 narrow bottoms on the creeks. White sandy and red clay loam the pre- 

 vailing soil. Subsoil heavy, red, clay, gravelly Growth,-short leaf pine, 

 white oak, red oak, walnut, hickory and maple. Average yield, four 

 hundred pounds seed cotton, eight bushels corn, fifteen bushels oats per 

 acre. Most of the land rented by the year for one-fourth of the crop ; 

 may be purchased on easy terms. Good building granite and soapstone 

 are found, with clay, used for making earthenware. Several mill sites ; 

 very healthy ; only about one-tenth of the field work performed by 

 whites^. 



Eyan Townsliip {E. D. 60): Lands elevated and slightly rolling. Soil, 

 a fine, gray, sandy loam, with a 3^ellow clay subsoil, and a coarse mulatto 

 loam, with red clay subsoil. The subsoil is close and compact, and is 

 underlaid by slates, soapstone and granite. Growth, short leaf pine, 

 cedar and a variety of oaks, hickory, walnut, dogwood, ash and elm. 

 Crops, six hundred pounds of seed cotton, fifteen bushels corn, fifteen 

 bushels wheat, thirty-five bushels oats, twenty-five bushels peas, one hun- 

 dred and fifty bushels potatoes per acre. Lands sell at from three dollars 

 to ten dollars an acre, and rent at fifty dollars for a one-horse farm. Gold, 

 manganese, silver and copper ores are found, but are only slightly devel- 

 oped. Wild clover, cane and several native grasses afford pasturage. 

 Stock raising is profitable, and could be made more so. Farm wages, 

 fifty cents per day ; one-tenth of it performed by whites. 



Washington Township {E. D. 63) ; Elevated, hilly and broken in the 

 upper portions. The level soils are gray, sandy and gray clay loam. 

 Subsoil, grayish, light colored clay, underlaid by red clay, flint and slate 

 rock. Growth, w^hite, red and post oak, hickor}^ and pine. Crops, one- 

 fourth to three-fourths of a bale of cotton, twent}'' bushels to forty-five 

 bushels oats, ten bushels to twenty-five bushels corn, five bushels to twelve 

 bushels wheat per acre. Ver}'' little land for sale, prices ten dollars to 

 twenty dollars an acre ; rents from three dollars to five dollars per acre. 

 Good water powers on Stephen's creek. Very little field work done by 

 whites. 



Rehobeth Township (E. D. 62) : Hilly, some level places and a few flats. 

 Soil, a dark or light gray loam, with subsoil of red clay, underlaid by clay 

 slate. Growth, oak, hickory, pine, ash and cedar. Crops, one-fourth to 

 one bale of cotton, ten bushels to tAventy bushels corn, ten bushels to 

 twenty bushels wh6at, ten bushels to thirtj^-five bushels oats an acre. 

 Know of none for sale, plenty to rent, for two bales to the plow. Prices 

 of land would average from two dollars and fifty cents to eleven dollars 



