MANUFACTURES, GOT 



Space does not here admit of mention ol the 



OTHER MANUFACTURING INDUSTRIES 



of South Carolina. The five leading industries, according to the census 

 of 1880 furnish seventy-eight per cent, of the aggregate products of man- 

 ufactures in the State, The case is widely different in the country at 

 large ; there the five largest manufacturing industries only furnish twen- 

 ty-eight per cent, of the aggregate products. It is this apparent lack of 

 development of the minor manufacturing pursuits in this State which 

 has sustained a very general belief that the people possessed little apti- 

 tude for manufacturing. It has been pointedly charged that they had 

 little skill for small affairs ; there was no change among them for a nick- 

 el, and in all their transactions they preferred wholesale methods to re- 

 tail. Granting that there is some force in this charge, it obviously needs 

 qualification when applied to a comparison of the industries of one State 

 with the diversification of pursuits rendered practicable by the diversity 

 of conditions obtaining over the country at large. Doubtless also, the 

 accurate enumeration of these minor pursuits among a population largely 

 rural, while it was much more difficult, was necessarily less complete. 

 Nevertheless, after making every allowance, the want of the minor me- 

 chanical industries in Carolina is much felt, and nowhere do the resources 

 of the country or the necessities of the people offer greater promise of 

 success to artizans of this description. 



MINING. 



The gold product of South Carolina was, by the U. S. Census, $13,040 

 in 1880, which puts the State fifteenth in point of production of this metal 

 among the other States. By the report of the director of the U. S. Mint 

 this production increased in 1882 to $25,000, which would place the 

 State fourteenth in point of production. (See page 134.) 



The commercial value of the numerous deposits of 



PHOSPHATE ROCKS 



along the coast of Carolina was established in 1868. The river mining 

 yielded from 1870, when the product was 1,987 tons, to the close of 1882, 

 when the yield was 140,772 tons, an aggregate of 948,852 tons, paying a 

 royalty into the State treasury of one dollar per ton. In 1876, the total 

 product of the river and land mining companies was 132,625 tons ; in 

 1883 it is given as 355,333 tons. The aggregate product for this period 



