180 THE PIEDMONT REGION. 



per acre, and rents for one-third of the crop. There are several gold 

 mines and an asbestos mine. Glenn Springs has long been a health re- 

 sort for those using mineral waters. One-third of the labor is white. 



Cherokee Tomiship (E. D. 140) : Elevated, rolling, with steep hills on 

 the large streams. Soil, a gray, sandy loam, with yellowish sandy sub- 

 soil, aixl a red clay loam, with stiff, red clay subsoil, underlaid by a 

 yellowish isinglass earth that crumbles on exposure, and enriches the 

 soil when strewn on the surface. Growth, oak, hickory, and pine. Crops, 

 seven hundred and fifty pounds seed cotton, ten bushels corn, eight 

 bushels wheat, fifteen bushels oats per acre, a yield that is more than 

 doubled by manuring and good culture. Lands sell for eight dollars to 

 ten dollars an acre ; rent for one-fourth of the crop, or, with stock and 

 tools, for one-half. Bottom lands are very fertile. Gold is found, aijd 

 iron mines were formerly worked. There are several mineral springs. 

 The north fork of the Pacolet furnishes great water power. All the cul- 

 tivated grasses may be grown. Farm wages, fifty cents a day ; three- 

 fourths performed by whites. 



Fairforest Township {E. D. 142) : Rolling ; on the water courses, hilly 

 and broken. A gray, sandy loam, underlaid by a yellowish or dark red 

 clay, is the prevailing soil ; there is some clay loam ; ten to fifteen feet 

 below the clay subsoil, rotten, and sometimes decomposed, granite and 

 gneiss are found. Growth, oak and hickory, occasionally chestnut and 

 walnut. Crops, four hundred pounds to eight hundred pounds seed 

 cotton, ten bushels to fifteen bushels corn, five bushels to ten bushels wheat 

 per acre, without fertilizers. Traces of gold. Valuable water powers on 

 Tyger river. The ridge between Tyger and Fairforest rivers is well 

 adapted for fruit growing, being seldom affected by frosts. Lands are 

 advancing in price, selling from eight dollars to fifteen dollars an acre. 

 About one-half the farm labor performed by whites. 



Pacolet Toimiship (E. D. 145) : High, table land. Soil, a fine sand, 

 twelve to fourteen inches to a light red clay subsoil, deepening in color 

 as j^ou descend ; at twenty to twenty-eight feet, solid or disintegrated 

 granite is met ; in the northwest, lands are red clay. Lands sell from 

 ten dollars to fifteen dollars an acre, and rent for one-third of the 

 crop. There is a quarry of fine granite. Shoals on the Pacolet have a 

 fall of twenty-two and one-half feet in one hundred yards, and a mile 

 below, there is another fall of thirty-three feet. All garden vegetables, 

 melons and grapes do well. Rich Hill, a high plateau, six miles in ex- 

 tent, between the Pacolet and Fairforest rivers, is unequalled for the pro- 

 duction of fruits of all kinds. Frosts have injured it but once in forty 

 years. Farm wages, from eight dollars to ten dollars a month. Two- 

 thirds of the field work done by whites. 



