The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1882-03-23

here. This is one Of the best lumber
ports in the South, yet hundreds of thou.
sands Of feet of lumber are shipoed here
to meet the increasing demand. Mills
| here can't supply it.
@: The prices Of stock of all kinds,
chickens
A. Horses S75 to $3.50, cows and calves
$40 to $25, hogs cheap, 81 to S5, chickens
90 &c 25 ccc.s.
Q. Does grass remain green all the
year?
A. September and October it gets dry,
except on low land.
@. When is planting and when is
harvest?
a. Here is one Of the advantages of
our CONTEMPLATING and harvesting all
the time. You can raise three or four
crops of various productions from the
soil, and fruit all the time. No special
time for harvesting here, with few excep.
tions. Corn and cotton are gathered in
August and September, sweet potatoes
from November to January, rice in June
and September; plant cane here in Jan.
uary. Sugar cane ground up in Decem.
ber to January.
z. Is society good?
A. Good and improving daily by the
addition of tho best class Of cultivated
people.
q. How is schools?
A. Two good academies in full opera
tion. and are daily improving.
Q. Salary of teachers?
A. $40 to S75 per month.
Q. Any insects?
a.. Very little trouble, except in Ger.
tain localities; only mosquitoes, none Of
the other.
q. Character of the soil, and what
products best adapted to it?
A. Generally q sandy loan, some pine
and hammock, with clay and some with
mari foundation. Rice, peas, sugar cane,
Jute, NATURALLY wild over the country,
all kinds of vegetables, cassaya, arrow
root, indigo aud every species of tropical
fruits. Cotton and corn don't do so we'll, i,
but cotton is long staple and very fine
and commands high price.
z. Can the most tender fruits and veg.
etable be carried to the Northern markets
in good shape?
A. Yes; shipping all the time.
Q. How high are you situated above
the bay?
A. Twenty feet above tide mark.
Z. Do steamers come up to the CITY {?
A. Yes, at high tide. The government
has made appropriations and the chan.
mel is pretty clean. When finished will
come to the city, at low de-Lrawing 9
feet of water.
z. Are your roads solid or sandy?
A. Most of our roads are hard but
some are deep sand
Q. Religion and politics?
A. We mako no roliuiot,c or ,rl;t;,ol I
tests in this country. All men sre free
to express or enjoy their own opinions /;
all we want is goo., valuable citizens.
A few words now for our correspon-
dent and others as to the location and
surroundings of Tampa. Tampa is stu.
ated 46 miles from the Gulf, at the mouth
Of Hillsborough river, on the head of
Hillsborough bay, in free stone belt
where there is scarcely any mosquitoes.
on sandy, scrub hammock.
The U. S. Government barracks is sit.
uated here, and one hundred soldiers and
officers have been located here for over
30 years, and not single death except
one from drowning. Back of Tampa,
north and east, is the arm of the Hills.
borough river, and adjoining the corpo-
land for building sites, all high and dry
with pure atmosphere embracing sew
eral thousand acres of fine land, six or
eight hundred acres covered with orange
groves and residences, Of all ages, and
most Of them will soon be in bearing.
The country north, east and west of
Tampa is mostly productive. The rail
road facilities is now fixed fact, and
three roads are now building tc Tampa.
One or more of them will reach us dur.
ing 1882, when the future OF Tampa
cannot be foretold. The yellow fever
has not been here since 1871; we are too
far from the Gulf in the pine belt fol
yellow fever to reach US.