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from tliis point. The yearly sales are approximately given as : provis- 

 ions, $800,000 ; dry goods, $800,000 ; hardware, $300,000; miscellaneous, 

 $100,000. The National Bank of Greenville has a cajjital of $100,000; 

 surplus, $20,000, and there is a private bank also. Besides the Huguenot 

 and Camperdown cotton mills, there is a carriage factory, a furniture 

 factory, an iron foundry, a cotton seed oil mill, a mattress factory, three 

 saddle and harness shops, a flour mill, a terra cotta factory, three brick 

 yards, and a mill turning out pearl grits. There are three printing 

 offices, two newspapers and a religious paper. The town is lighted with 

 gas ; the mills have electric lights. 



Piedmont is a flourishing manufacturing town, eleven miles south of 

 Greenville, where the railroad crosses the Saluda. The population is 1150. 

 There is a hotel, a two-story school house, capacity, one hundred pupils; 

 the upper story used as a town and society hall ; one church, capacity, 

 four hundred persons, built at a cost of $1,800. The value of the pro- 

 perty is estimated at $1,000,000. The shipments are confined to the 

 products of the mills of the Piedmont Manufacturing Company, estimated 

 at $900,000 ; by the last report of the president, " the net jDrofits during 

 the year amounted to 21 J per cent, on the capital stock of $500,000, or 

 over $105,000. The yearly sales are : provisions, $40,000 ; dry goods, 

 $40.000 ; miscellaneous $20,000. This village was commenced in 1874-5. 



LANCASTER COUNTY 



has nine towns and trading settlements, with fifty stores, as follows : 

 Lancaster Court House, thirty stores; Flat Creek, five stores; Pleasant 

 Hill and Taxahaw, four stores each ; Cureton's and Pleasant Valley, two 

 stores each ; Craigsville, Gum and Hail's, one store each. Of this num- 

 ber eight sell miscellaneous articles, and forty-two general merchandise. 

 The estimated wealth of the storekeepers is $272,000. 



LAURENS COUNTY 



has eighteen towns and trading settlements, with one hundred and 

 twenty -three stores, to wit : Laurens Court House, fifty-three stores ; 

 Clinton, twenty-seven stores; Martin's, eight stores; Line Creek and 

 Cross Hill, six stores oach ; Power's Shop and Waterloo, four stores each ; 

 Brewerton, Roseborough, Tumbling Shoals, and Tylersville, two stores 

 each ; Cedar Grove, Mountain Shoal, Mount Gallaghar, l^leasant Mound, 

 ScufHetown, Young's and Eden, one store each Of this number five sell 

 liquors, five dry goods, eight hardware, twenty-six miscellaneous articles, 

 and seventy-nine general merchandise. The estimated wealth of the 

 storekeepers aggregates $772,000. 



