170 THE PIEDMONT REGION. 



Cedar Creek Towmldp {E. D. 18) : Elevated, hilly, and broken. Soil, coarse 

 sand and sandy loam ; subsoil, yellow clay, underlaid by red, gravelly 

 clay. Growth, short leaf pine, oak, and hickory ; abandoned fields grow 

 up in loblolly pines in three to six years, which, in turn, give place to 

 cedar. Crops, seven hundred pounds of seed cotton, eight bushels corn 

 per acre. Land sells at from three dollars to ten dollars per acre. Un- 

 limited water power on the Catawba river, which is one hundred and 

 fifty yards wide, three feet deep, and flows nearly with the velocity of a 

 cataract. Little attention paid to stock. It might be made profitable. 

 Good building granite. Very healthy. Wages of field labor thirty to 

 fifty cents a day. 



Flat Creek Towmhvp {E.D. 79): Some level land, but mostly hilly and 

 rocky. Soils, coarse and fine, white, sandy loam and red clay loam ; sub- 

 soil, a red clay. Growth, long leaf pine, oak and hickory. Crops, one-half 

 bale of cotton, ten bushels corn, ten bushels wdieat, ten bushels oats per 

 acre. Price of land, from two dollars to ten dollars. There are several 

 gold mines. Valuable mill sites on Lynch's River. 



Cane Creek Township : Elevated, rolling, in some places nearly level. 

 Soil, a fine, sandy loam, changing to clay loam near the streams ; subsoil, 

 red clay, underlaid with yellowish clay and gravel. Growth, oak and 

 hickory, also short leaf pine. Crops, eight hundred pounds seed cotton, 

 ten bushels corn, fifteen bushels oats per acre ; an average, on twenty 

 acres, of eighteen hundred pounds seed cotton has been made. Know of 

 no land for sale. At Land's ford, the Catawba river is three-quarters of 

 a mile wide, one foot to three feet deep, with a fall of thirty feet to the 

 mile. Lucerne, red and white clover, orchard, meadow, red top and blue 

 grass, all do well. These lands sold for fifteen dollars to twenty-five dollars 

 before the war, and have been under cultivation for nearly two hundred 

 years. 



Laurens County. 



Jacks Township {E. D. 103) : Elevated and rolling. Soils, red or mulatto 

 clay loam, with red clay subsoil, and gray, sandy lands, Avith a light- 

 colored clay subsoil. Growth, red, white, post, and water oaks, hickory 

 and walnut, some sugar maple. Hundreds of acres of abandoned land 

 are grown up in short leaf pine ; in the last decade, many long leaf pines 

 have appeared among them, and are rapid growers. • Crops, five hundred 

 pounds seed cotton, eight bushels corn, twenty bushels oats, eight bushels 

 to ten bushels wheat, are about the average ; on the bottoms, fifty bushels 

 corn per acre is made. Know of no lands for sale. There are thousands 

 of acres, owned by non-residents, rented to freedmen for a portion of the 



