The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1868-01-08

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W., Z. Sims, Union, sH'. .tac |
J. NJ. Allen, Greenville.
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Natural Resources Found In South
s 80 ~ iCarolina.
Few know the vast wealth which
lies undeveloped in South Carolina,
and one Of the advantages which the
changed condition of things must
bring to us is the development of
these sonrces of wealth..
The iron ore of Spartanburg, is
well known to be the finest in the
United States. Our entire up-coun-
try abounds with iron and gold, and
when We get into the Blue Ridge
Mountains, lead and copper is found
in abundance. Coming lower down
the country, we find deposits which
aE6 perhaps equally valuable. and
which are now being more or less de-
.veloped. The entire region of coun-
try drained by Horse Creek and its
tributaries possesses inexhaustible de-
posits of the finest kaolin, burrh
stone, with ochre Of all colors, from
the deepest red to the ightest green.
The pure kaolin Of this region is now
in great demand, and those engaged
IN the business are not able to, fur
nish all that is wanted; and the price
at which It is sold in the North leaves,
we are informed, d very large profit
to.i those owning the works. The
South Carolina Porcelain Manufac-
turing Company are now the largest
shippers of kaoli1, though several
iother parties are engaged in the trade.
Most Of it that is now shipped goes
down Big Horse Greek to the Savan-
nah River, and thence to Savannah
by steamers. where it is loaded into
schooners and sent North. Some of
it comes over the South Carolina
Railroad to Charleston, and is from
here Sent North.
Few of our people know to what
extent this trade has been pushed,
and that South Caroliua kaolin is
now regularly quoted in the manu-
facturers price lists of the Northern
cities, and yet we are quite sure that
the trade is but commenced, and that
it will not only be used to much
greater extent in the United States,
but must become an article of export
to Europe, and even now it can be
proitably sold in Liverpool, and or
ders from England are now here for
shipments to be sent out to that
country. A few casks of it were sent
to England and France last summer,
to be made up into crockery, and the
samples OF ware which have been re-
turned to the shipper, are very beau
tiful. The reports of manufacturers
are very favorable, and they say that
for certain styles of wares, it is supe-
rior to the celebrated Stafordshire
clay, but for the coarser wares IL is
too fine, and to make themf must be
mixed with other clay.
~ On O recent visit to this section, we
examined the depo3its Of ochres,
kaolin and burrh str ne on the Kalmia
Mills property, and we confess our
surprise at the extent of these mate
rails: We were shown o deposit of
ksolin almost as pure and white as
snow, and covering tract of country
as large as half the city of Charles
ton. The stratum varies from five
60 twenty-seyen feet in thickness,
and is large enough to supply the
wants of the world for generations.
Another of the natural resources of
the State, the immense deposit of
bone and phosphates on the banks of
the Ashley River, near Charleston,
apart from its intrinsic value, derives
additional interest from the fact that
we owe the knowledge of it to the
scientific requirements and indefati-
gable research of,a South Carolinian,
and one, too, who has been for years,
prominently connected with one Of
our principal institutions Of learn
ing. How this deposit came to be
made. is an interesting scientific
: question; but the facts which more
Immediately concern us now are FIRST,
that this deposit, which is inexhaust.
ible, furnishes the raw material, oui
of which may be manufactured 9
fertilizer equal in quality to the best