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and rents for four hundred pounds lint cotton for twelve acres ; some slate 

 and soaptones are found ; also veins of gold. Clover and grasses do well. 

 One-half of the field work performed by whites. 



HiiWs Township {E. D. 54) : Elevated and rolling. Soils, gray and red 

 clay loam, two and one-half inches, the subsoil of yellow or red clay. 

 Growth, oak, hickory and pine. Crops, six hundred pounds seed cotton, 

 ten bushels to fifteen bushels corn, fifteen bushels to thirty-five bushels 

 oats, eight bushels to twenty bushels wheat per acre. Lands sell for five 

 dollars to ten dollars an acre, and rent for two dollars to three dollars an 

 acre. Fine water power on Saluda river. Very healthy. One-half of 

 the field work is performed by whites. 



Cooper Township (E. D. 49) : Lands rolling. The prevailing soil a stiff, 

 red clay. The subsoil is the same, with absence of vegetable mould. 

 There are also flat lands, known as " buckshot " or " black gravel soils," 

 very dark. Cotton rusts, and corn " frenches " on them ; but oats do 

 well. Flint and black rock (trap) occur under the subsoil. Growth, 

 white, red and post oak, hickory and pine. Crops, five hundred pounds 

 cotton (seed) to one bale, ten bushels corn on the hills, twenty-five bush- 

 els to forty bushels on the bottoms ; ten bushels to forty bushels wheat, 

 twenty-five bushels to seventy-five bushels oats per acre. Blue grass is 

 making its appearance. Red and yellow clover do well. Stock raising 

 has been made profitable by a few persons on the streams, where native 

 grasses and clover, growing wild, furnish good pasture. Farm. wages, 

 from twenty-five cents to fifty cents a day ; sixty dollars to seventy-five 

 dollars by the year with board. 



Fairfield County. 



Fairfield Township {E. D. 79) : Lands level, rolling, sometimes hilly and 

 broken. Soil, light gray sandy loam, with yellov>^ clay subsoil and red 

 mulatto loam, with red clay, subsoil underlaid by red clay, granite and 

 decomnosing rocks. Growth, short leaf pine, oak, elm, walnut. Fine 

 building granite. Little attention paid to stock. Wages of field labor, 

 men, fifty cents to seventy -five cents ; women, thirty cents to fifty cents a 

 day. The negro not a success as a tenant. The land for sale at six 

 dollars to eight dollars an acre, and one-half to rent 'for one-fourth of the 

 crop. Varieties of granite, iron rock and soapstone occur. Gold and 

 iron have been mined. Bermuda grass and clover do well ; also crab- 

 grass and swamp grasses. Stock raising is found profitable. One-twen- 

 tieth of the field work performed by whites. 



Fairfield, No. 10 Township {E. D. 70) : Hilly, rolling or broken. Soil, a 

 fine sandy loam, with yellow clay. Subsoil, a heavy clay loam, and a 



