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The Granby quarry, two miles below the city, furnished the material 

 of Avhich the State House is built. It has not been worked since the war. 



The Green quarry, one mile north of Granby, is worked by the Co- 

 lumbia Granite Company, making blocks for the pavements of Charles- 

 ton. The company have a large capital, employ about twenty block 

 makers and fifty drillers and laborers ; the product is at the rate of one 

 million of paving blocks annually. 



Colonel F. W. MclNIaster has a quarry of fine granite on the Greenville 

 Railroad, one mile north of Columbia ; it is also within one hundred feet 

 of the State canal that is being constructed here. 



Professor Woodrow, of the University of South Carolina, who has ex- 

 amined these rocks in the vicinity of Columbia, says : " As to c^uantity 

 they are practically inexliiiustible. The rock is of a light gray color, 

 the feldspar being light colored and the mica dark brown or black. It 

 is fine grained, compact, and of uniform texture, and is comparatively 

 free from seams and injurious veins, so that solid blocks of any desired 

 size may be attained. Its durability might be inferred directly from the 

 condition of its constituent material, and it is attested not only by blocks 

 long exposed to the weather in the oldest buildings in the vicinity, but 

 better still by the condition of the blocks that have been lying upon the 

 surface for untold ages." For numerous other quarries see chapter on 

 the Piedmont region, and the accompanying map. 



FISHERIES. 



South Carolina comes twentieth in the fish producing States, with 

 1,005 fishermen, and products valued at $212,482. She is, however, 

 noted for her shrimp fisheries, these being more extensive than those of 

 any other State, and nearly equal to those of all other States combined. 

 In 1880 her fishermen secured 18,000 bushels, valued at $37,500. The 

 principal fisheries are about Charleston, where several hundred negroes, 

 with an occasional Spaniard, are engaged in fishing with hand-lines from 

 vessels and small boats, to supply the City with whiting, blackfish and 

 other species. A limited fishery occurs in the sounds about Beaufort, 

 from which point a few fish are shipped to interior cities. Beyond the 

 places mentioned no sea fishery of importance occurs, though there is 

 more or less fishing for local supply along all portions of the coast. 

 About 400,000 pounds ofalewives, 207,000 pounds of shad, and 261,250 

 pounds of sturgeon, with considerable quantities of other species, were 

 taken by the river fishermen, the largest fisheries being in the Edisto river 

 and in the tributaries of Winyah Bay. 



