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on€-half l>ales of cotton, fifteen bushels corn, seven bushels to twenty 

 bushels wheat, fifteen bushels to fifty bushels oats. The mud bottoms on 

 Keedy river will produce fifty bushels of corn to the acre, and the corn 

 crop would be largely increased, if this stream, now much obstructed by 

 logs, was cleared out. Clover, lucerne and the grasses do well, when at- 

 tended to. Lands sell for ten dollars an acre; about one-half is rented 

 annually. Shoals on the Saluda river unimproved, afford abundant 

 water power. Good building granite is found. Farm wages, from eight 

 dollars to ten dollars a month. One-half the field work performed by 

 whites. 



Paris Mountain Township (E. D. 90 and 97) : Level, broken and hilly. 

 Soils, sandy, chocolate and clay loam. Subsoil, red clay, underlaid by a 

 white gravelly earth, containing mica. Growth, oak, hickory and pine. 

 A little land for sale from five dollars to twenty dollars an acre. Build- 

 ing granite and soapstone are found. Farr's mills and Mackelheny's 

 shoals on Saluda river furnish water powers. Farm wages, fifty cents a 

 day ; one-half performed by whites. 



Lancaster County. 



Waxhaw's Township (E. D. 84) : Land rolling. Soil of southern portion red 

 loam, ten inches to red clay. Subsoil, granite, crossed by j^orphyritic 

 dykes. Northern portion, coarse, light colored sand, four inches to 

 white clay, rocks, talcere slate ; underlying subsoil a light colored dirt, 

 showing mica. Growth, oak, hickory, short leaf pine and holly. Crops, 

 eight hundred pounds seed cotton, and twelve bushels corn per acre. No 

 land for sale. Plenty to rent for eight hundred pounds to fifteen hun- 

 dred pounds lint cotton to the work animal. Splendid water power near 

 Land's ford, on the Catawba. Field labor paid fifty cents a day, without 

 rations ; comparatively none performed by whites. 



Pleasant Hill Township {E. D. 42) : Generally level. Soil, coarse sand, 

 three inches to eight inches to red cla}'' subsoil. Growth, pine, oak, 

 and hickory ; on the bottoms, black gum and poplar. Crops, six hundred 

 pounds cotton (seed), ten bushels com, eight bushels wheat, ten bushels 

 or twelve bushels oats per acre. Not much land for sale. Unimproved 

 land is selling for three dollars, improved land for five to ten dollars an 

 acre ; rents for one-fourth of the crop. There is a gold mine, and kaolin 

 is found. Long and* short leaf pine in abundance. Little attention paid 

 to stock ; might be profitably raised. Have practiced medicine here for 

 twenty-three years, and know of no place freer of disease. More than 

 one-half the field labor is performed by whites. Wages, fifty cents a day 

 and fed. 



