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an acre. Traces of gold. Large water powers on Stevens and Turkey 

 creeks. Wages of field labor, thirty cents to seventy-five cents a day ; 

 one-twentieth of it performed by whites. Very healthy. 



Dimtonsville Township {E. D. 45) : Rolling lands. Soils, clay loam, 

 mixed with small particles of clay slate, or with grit or a stiff waxy clay. 

 Subsoils of the first two varieties composed of shatters of rotten clay slate ; 

 of the last, yellow and deep red clay, underlying the subsoil is red clay, 

 clay slate, granite and chalk. Growth, oak, hickor}', pine and ash. 

 Crops, one-third of a bale of cotton, fifteen bushels to fifty bushels oats, 

 five bushels to ten bushels wheat, seven bushels to ten bushels corn an 

 acre. Land for sale at four dollars to five dollars an acre ; rents for fifty 

 dollars for what one horse can cultivate ; house, firewood and pasture in- 

 cluded. There are three slate quarries, and traces of gold. Grasses do 

 well on flat places. Very healthy. Farm wages, fifty cents a day, and 

 board ; one-third performed by whites. 



Grey Township {E. D. 51) : Level, undulating and hilly, not broken. 

 Soil, mostly a gray clay loam, underlaid by gray slate rock. Growth, red, 

 black, post, white and other oaks, with hickory, pine and dogwood. Crops, 

 six hundred pounds to eighteen hundred pounds (with acid phosphate) 

 seed cotton, ten bushels on upland to thirty bushels on bottoms of corn, 

 five bushels to ten bushels of wheat, ten bushels to forty bushels oats per 

 acre. Unimproved lands sell for from three dollars to five dollars an 

 acre. Little improved land for sale ; it rents for eight hundred pounds 

 to one thousand pounds seed cotton for forty acres. Arable land, farmed 

 on shares, everything furnished but labor and rations, and the crop divided. 

 Traces of gold are found, and there are quarries of soapstone and whetstones, 

 but not much developed. Good chalk and clay for manufacture of earth- 

 enware abound. Farm wages, fifty cents a day ; cradlers, one dollar and 

 twenty-five cents to one dollar and fifty cents. No prevailing disease. 

 One-fourth of the labor is performed by whites. 



Mohley Township (E. D. 56) : Generally level. Soils, gray clay loam, 

 underlaid by hard and soft slate rock. Growth, mostly pine. Crops, 

 three hundred pounds to eight hundred pounds seed cotton, five bushels 

 to twenty bushels corn, five bushels to twenty bushels oats per acre. 

 Some land for sale at from five dollars to ten dollars per acre. A good 

 deal to rent for four hundred pounds lint cotton for ten to fifteen acres. 



Hibbler's Township (E. D. 53) : Generally level, in some parts hilly. 

 Soils, a black clay loam, with red clay subsoil ; and a gray clay loam, 

 with white and yellow clay subsoil. The subsoil is underlaid by slate rock 

 and some granite. Growth, white oak, red oak, ash, pine and poplar. 

 Crops, eight hundred pounds seed cotton, ten bushels corn, thirty bushels 

 oats, twenty bushels wheat per acre. Land sells for four dollars per acre ; 



