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Hurricane TownsJiip {E. D. 131) : Country for the most part broken and 

 liilly. Soil, a light yellowish brown loam, three inches to five inches to 

 a stiff red clay, lying on sandstone and gray rock. Growth, pine, oak, 

 and hickory. The uplands yield ten to twenty bushels corn per acre. 

 Within a few years the people have found out that they can raise cotton, 

 the lands producing five hundred pounds to one thousand pounds seed 

 cotton to the acre. Lands for sale from two dollars to ten dollars an acre. 

 There is considerable good bottom land on the streams. Four creeks 

 aiford good water-powers. There are no prevailing diseases. Nine-tenths 

 of the field labor is performed by whites. 



