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MANUFACTURES. 



extent of necessitating the culture of trees, as in the older coun- 

 tries of the world, the cypress will be among the most available 

 here. Before tliat time however arrives, there are thousands of square 

 miles in Carolina to be denuded of their pine forests. The live oak, for 

 shi]) Ijuilding, and many other hard woods, as the persimmon, for cogs 

 of motive wlieels, tlie dogwood, for shuttles, and white oaks, for staves, 

 abound in this State. The only other manufacturing industry in South 

 Carolina whose annual products, according to the U. S. Census, exceed 

 one million of dollars, is the manufacture of 



TAR AND TURPENTINE. . 



The data furnished by the U. S. Census regarding this industry in 

 South Carolina for the years 18G0-70-80 are given in the following table : 



The product of South Carolina in 1880 is over one-third of the aggre- 

 gate products of this class in the whole United States. 



In the thinly peopled lower third of the State, where lumber, turpen- 

 tine and phosphate rock are the chief products of industry, the lands 

 from which these bounties of nature have been gathered are esteemed of 

 little value. And yet, if the physical and chemical constitution of these 

 soils be considered (see Lower Pine Belt), or the crops they yield, there is 

 no reason why they should not make to agriculture returns as valuable 

 as any lands in the State. If the State, or capitalists, would arrange for 

 their thorough drainage, this would become a certainty, and a large 

 region, now almost waste, would be opened for the colonization of a 

 permanent and thriving population. This would be facilitated by a 

 number of private railroads five to twenty miles in length, built here by 

 lumbermen and phosphate miners, rendering points formerly remote 

 easilv accessible. 



