The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1896-01-22
EXCELLENT
SHOWING
MADE BY THE STATE PENlTTEN-
TIARY THE PAST YEAR.
The Annual Report Of Superintendent
Neal Running Up to the New
Fiscal Year

Below is given the annual report OF
Superintendent Neal OF the State pen
itentiary, which is the only one of the
reports issued covering the transactions
up to the beginning Of the new fiscal
year provided for in the Constitution.
The institution seems to be in good
condition under Col. Meals manage
ment. Instead of being m expense to
the State it begins the new fiscal year
with cash and supplies on hand amount.
ing to SIS, 5,G95.S7. The report reads
as follows:
AS required by law, I have the honor
to submit my third annual report as
superintendent of the South Carolina
penitsntiary for II months, ending
this day.
I make this report for IA months
instead of II months, caused by the
new Constitution changing the fiscal
year from Oct. 81 to Dec. 81, making
the long report this year instead of
next.
I am glad to say that the financial
condition Of the penitentiary is good.
We have had heavy expenses this year,
caused by equipping three State farms,
which were leased to private parties
before I was elected superintendent,
which lease expired with the year 1894.
This change caused us to buy 69
mules and horses, engines, gins,
wagons, tools, farming implements and
buildings, at cost of about $4,000.
The crops for the past year on the
three State farm were good as whole,
and on the share farms fairly good,
with one or two exceptions. The
States share of the crops as fol1ows:
1,1S5 bales of cotton, 25, $50 bushels OF
corn, 0,515 bushels of cotton seed,
535, 900 pounds of hay and fodder, l.
975 bushels of peas, $500 gallons of
molasses, 200 bushels of rice, $500
worth of tobacco, 5000 bushels of
oats.
Cash value of crops for the year, $685.
010.
CASH STATEMENT.
Liabilities of the institution aside
from the Reid farm purchased, S4,-
6S7,3O. We have in cash 50, l40, 72;
due from convict hire and other
sources, So, 3,242.52, cash value of crops
now on hand, $l5, 1000. which gives us
cash and supplies to begin the years
work of SIS, ,695.S7, after deducting
the liabilities. We bought January
last the "Reid plantation" adjoining
the "DeSaussure farm" 1,712 acres,
for $3.50, which Will enable us to
thoroughly protect the whole swamp
lands from overflow, giving very
valuable tract of land, containing 4, 712
acres.
We made on the two places this year
Il, 900 bushels of corn, 480 bales Of
cotton, 5000 bushels of oats, 2,4OO
gallons of molasses, 225, 900 pounds of
hay and fodder, 600 bushels of peas,
u, 900 bushels of cotton seed, and we
expect to do much better on these
two places next year, as We will have
more Time 10 pEepare auu cleaI ianu
and put the places in good fix for
crop.
Owing to the depressed financial
condition of the country, we were I'M
able to place the convict labor for as
good price as We will the coming
year. But Notwithstanding the hard
times and low prices of farm products,
we will be able to run the penitentiary
without asking the legislature for help.
I think we should congratulate our
selves that in spite CT floods, fire and
money panics, all of which we have
had heavy losses from, We are able to
pull through and make the many i'm
proYereents that we have made during
the past three years: