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South Carolina has an area of 30,989 square miles, or m 

 20,000,000 acn population in HHn was !.:>: -id is 



not concentrau-d in a few !argi- '-he case else- 



whcri scattered throughout the State. Only one 



Charleston, has a population of over 50,000, while there are only 

 three others having a population of over 10,000. These fi\ 

 indicate that the State is an agricultural and timber pro,!- 

 community. Within the last decade or two. ho\\ . 



elupment has been made in the manufacturing industries. 



Several large rivers and their tributaries afford means for log 

 transportation in the coastal plain and a network of railroads 

 throughout the State furnishes facilities for the shipment of prod- 

 ucts from one part of the State to another as well as to on 

 markets. In addition to railways and navigable streams, South 

 Carolina has a few seaports of considerable commercial i: 

 tance which should be considered as a part of her transporta- 

 tion system. Charleston is one of the most important of the 

 southern seaports and affords harboring and dock in L; 

 for men-of-war and ocean liners. It also figures greatly in 

 coastwise trade while Georgetown is the shipping point for the 

 bulk of the costal plain lumber which is transported by water. 



The growing of cotton and the manufacture of its products 

 are pre-eminent among all industries of the State. The \ 

 climate, ranging from semitropic in the southern coastal region 

 to temperate in the northwestern part of the State makes it 

 possible to ra nltural crops of corresponding ditYen 



Practically every variety of crop known to the United Si 

 can be grown in some portion of South Carolina. 



According to the United States Census for 1910, lumbrr and 

 lumber products stand second in importance in the Slate and are 

 exceeded only by cotton goods. In fact the number of establish- 

 ments engaged in the handling of lumber and timber products 



e engaged in any other in<; 



Carolina vcnty-second an in tin- amount 



1 annual 



FORESTS. 



When of the coast line of S 



Carolina it probably resembled a low. dense jungle of scmii 



n. Fun' the higher ground c\i 



of almost pure longleaf pine ap- muntains 



