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crop, and miserably farmed. There is an immense amount of fine granite. 

 No prevailing sickness. Amovmt of field work performed by whites in- 

 creasing. Wages, fift}^ cents a day and rations. 



Waterloo Township {E. D. 106): Hilly,' washes when not properly 

 ditched. Soils sandy, gravelly, and clay loam ; color mulatto, sometimes 

 a deep red ; depth, two inches to three inches to a pale red clay subsoil, 

 underlaid by clay, and in some places, by a dusky or bluish sandy earth. 

 A very hard, bluish granite rock found in some wells. Growth, red, 

 white, and post oak. Lands thrown out of cultivation grow up in pine, 

 and are more productive than the original forest. Crops, six hundred 

 ^pounds to twelve hundred pounds seed cotton, ten bushels corn on up- 

 lands, and fifty on bottoms, fifteen bushels oats, eight bushels wheat per 

 acre ; crab grass, after small grain, yields, sometimes, hay to the value 

 of twenty dollars an acre. Lands for sale at from five dollars to twenty 

 dollars per acre. Indications of gold are found in many places, but 

 no mines are worked. Reedy river and Saluda river furnish valuable 

 water powers. These streams are much obstructed by logs. Farm labor 

 paid ten dollars a month, generally employed for a share of the crop ; 

 one-fourth of it is performed by whites. 



Sullivan's Township {E. D. 105) : Elevated ridges and level land between 

 the streams. Soils, a fine sandy loam, gray and chocolate in color, and 

 a red clay loam, resting on red clay subsoil. Growth, oak, hickory, ash, 

 dogwood, poplar, walnut and elm, with abundance of cedar along the 

 Saluda river. Crops, five hundred to twelve hundred pounds seed cotton, 

 ten bushels to thirty bushels corn, twenty bushels to thirty bushels bar- 

 ley, fifteen bushels to sixty bushels oats, and eight bushels to twenty-five 

 bushels wheat to the acre. Land can be bought at five dollars to ten 

 dollars an acre ; rents for one-fourth of the crop, or eight hundred pounds 

 lint cotton to the plow ; sometimes the laborer boards himself and pays 

 one-half to the land owner, who furnishes everything else. Gray and 

 blue granite, the latter used as mill rocks, are found. Gold, copper and 

 lead are found, but not mined. Lime rock crops out on Reedy river, and 

 below Garlington falls, on Reedy river, it is quarried for monuments and 

 for lime burning ; soapstone of fine quality also occurs. The great falls 

 on Saluda river, at the head of navigation, are seventy feet in two miles. 

 Abundant water powers are also furnished by other falls on the river, by 

 five falls on Reedy river, by falls on Rabnor creek. Ver}^ healthy. One- 

 half the field work performed by whites. 



Scuffletown Toimship- {E. D. 104): Undulating. Soil, gray, gravelly, 

 sandy loam ; subsoil, clay. Growth, oak, hickory, maple, pine, cedar and 

 walnut. Crops, six hundred pounds to twelve hundred pounds seed 

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