The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1878-02-07

capitalist. The whole region round
about Charleston for many miles is one
vast deposit Of phosphate rock, which,
under the cunning manipulations of the
workman and the scientific treatment OF
the chemist, yields the most valuable of
commercial fertilizers. The mining OF
this rock affords employment to thou
sands of laborers. 1t is shipped in the
crude state to all parts of Europe and the
Northern States, besides being manufac-
tured on the spot by a number of differ
ent companies with large capital into
the highest grades OF super-phosphates.
Among the favorite brands are the Eti-
wan, Stono, Wando, Atlantic and Pa
cifc. This industry iB yearly on the. in
crease, and, directly and indirectly, is
worth millions to the State.
THE UPPER SECTION OF THE STATE
is rich in mineral deposits, comprising
even gold, and as fine an article of gran
ite as can be produced in this country is
found in the vicinity of Columbia, the
capital of the State. 1t is of this same
material that the costly and elegant State
House commenced before the war, but
still incomplete,) is constructed. All
that is needed is the capital and enter
prise to quarry it, and it would take q
front rank in the line of building mate
rials.
SIGNS OF PROSPERITY.
1t will thus be seen that notwithstand-
ing the direful results of war which
swept away the bulk Of our properly, and
the malignant cupidity of a corrupt car
pet-bag government, which, until the
present year, have ground our people to
the dust by unparalleled robbery and op-
pressive taxation; notwithstanding the
strenuous efforts under the guise of re-
construction to invert the social pyramid
by placing the Caucasian under the
domination of a recently enfranchised
negro race. Still the people of South
Carolina have marched boldly and in.
dustriously forward in the race of pro-
gress, until at last they have an honest,
economical andliberal State government,
inaugurated under the leadership of the
noble and high minded Hampton, and if
our beloved Carolina does not blossom as
the rose, her sons are at least hopeful and
manfully struggling to place her in the
front rank of commercial and agricultu-
raj advancement. Our State contains an
area of about SO, ,213 square miles or 49,
435, $50 acres, and averages in length lS9
and in breadth 160 miles. With such q
territory we could accommodate many
times our present population, which bare
ly exceeds 100000. With such variety
Of agricultural products as she is capable
of producing, with such treasure house
of mineral wealth, end with such climatic
advantages as she possesses, where can
the emigrant, whether from Europe or
from our own sister States of the North,
select more inviting home. Land is
cheap, and the people ready to sell. We
say then to those who are honest, and in
dustrious, come and you will find hos
pitable reception. In Aiken County
considerable number of Northerners,
representing Massachusetts,, Connecticut,
New York, New Jersey and Michigan,
have located, and are so well satisfied
that since the establishment of the
Hampton government many of them
have increased their investments.-C 3.
r. Drayton, Esq, in Charleston journal
Of Commerce.