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on farm, fifty cents a day, with rations ; seventy-five cents without. Very 

 healthy. Don't know a doctor who lives by his profession in the county. 

 One-fifth of the field labor performed by whites. 



•Goshen Township (E. I). 155) : Hilly and rolling. Soil, fine, dark gray, 

 light sandy loam, two inches to four inches to subsoil of stiff red clay, or 

 pipe clay, with rocks underlaid by whitish sand, hard and soft rocks, with 

 some isinglass. Growth, different oaks, poplar, ash, walnut and pine. 

 Crops, one-half bale of cotton, eight bushels to fifteen bushels corn, on 

 uplands ; twenty bushels to fifty bushels, on bottoms ; ten bushels to 

 eighty bushels oats, four bushels to ten bushels wheat per acre. Clover 

 and the grasses do well, where attended to. Lands sell from five dollars 

 to ten dollars an acre ; rent for three bales of cotton for a one-horse farm. 

 Farm hands paid eight dollars a month. No attention paid to stock 

 raising, except some fine horses. A very small proportion of the labor 

 is white. 



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York County. 



King^s Mountain Township {E. D. 170) : Lands rolling or level, in places 

 mountainous, elsewhere hilly. Soils, sandy, rocky gravelly or clay loam, 

 with red or yellow clay subsoil. Growth, oak ; where cut down it is suc- 

 ceeded by broom sedge and pine. Crops, twelve bushels corn, upland ; 

 thirty bushels creek bottom ; wheat, ten bushels to twenty bushels ; oats, 

 ten bushels per acre. The poorest soils yield cotton well, with aid of 

 guano. Fine monumental granite, iron ores and barytes are found. 

 Lands sell for from two dollars and fifty cents to ten dollars an acre. 

 Healthy; negroes suffer from consumption. Wages of field labor, fifty 

 cents a day, or ten dollars a month, with board ; one-half of it performed 

 by native whites. 



BeHiesda Township {E. D. 162) : The hilly and rolling lands are red 

 clay or sandy soils, with yellow clay subsoil. These are the best cotton 

 lands. The level or flat lands are the blackjack lands. Black, rocky 

 soils, with pipe clay subsoil, underlaid by a hard, whitish, gravelly sub- 

 stance, produce the small grains well, but cotton rusts and continues 

 yellow or frenches after a few years cultivation, unless stable manure is 

 applied. Lands sell from two dollars to twenty-five dollars an acre, and 

 rent for eight hundred pounds of lint cotton for a one-horse farm of 

 twenty-five or thirty acres. 



