The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1897-01-13

the well TO be decidedly unsafe and
the spring barely SO. We ought, in
nv Judgment, 10 take some steps to-
ward getting pure water supply
With our fine sewerage and other
sanitary Improvements, and pure
driu king water furnished. the health
of the penitentiary would be greatly
improved. For a more minute state
ment OF the health and sanitary con-
Gition of the prison, would refer you
to the report OF DR.. D. S. Pope.
MORAL AND RELIGIOUS.
The church and Sunday school
room has been overhauled and put IN
good condition, with new organ
furnished. We have church services
each Sunday morning, conducted by
the chaplain, also Sunday school ser
vices in the afternoon superintended
by Messrs. Stanley and Adams With
their lady friends.
will call your attention to the re-
port of the chaplain, Rev. y. Pope
Norris. The prisoners seem to be bet
ter satisfied, which think is attribu-
table to the religious exercises, IN
which many of them take much IN.
terest. lam glad to state that a good
supply OF religious literature IS being
furnished at small cost to the State,
being donated by friends and religious
societies.
IMPROVEMENTS AT PENITENTIARY.
New barn for cattle, wagon sheds,
cribs, stables, silos, lot fence, slaugn-
ter pens, in fact everything entirely y
new in the lot has been built this
year, at cost of about $1,000.
The prison building has been ce-
mented inside the cells, new iron bed
steads with springs, for all the prison
ers; church overhauled, and some
other minor Improvements IN the
yard, costing about 81, ,0Q0.
REED FARM IMPROVEMENTS.
New large prison buildings, guards,
quarters, cook shed, cattle lssllAaysetc.
at cost of aboptSe. 800 also $50 acres
of1snd clared and ditched.
DEsAUssURE FARM IMPROVEMENTS.
Two new bridges, prison building
iml lroved and made more secure, new
guards quarters, large and complete,
new dining and cook room for the
managers and guards, new smoke
house, hay sheds, grist mill, engine,
boiler, and saw mill sheds, all at q
cost of about $500. Also guano
house on railway track for Reed and
DeSaussure farms, 30 feet wide, So
feet long, good brick pillars, strong
and substantial, at cost Of $500. This
building will be used for storing
guano in bulk. direct from the cars,
which can be sacked and hauled to
the fields.
CROP STATEMENT.
The crops have not been good at
any of Our farms and especially short
at some of our share farms.
DEsAUssURE FARM-30-MULE CROP.
313 bales of cotton at $50 per
bale.s 9,o9V.VO
7,S25 bushels of cotton seed
a. 15c.. ............-..... 9I4.@o
s1O.. 100000
3,196 gallons molasses, at 2Cc 639 ~
1914 bushels of oats, at 40c. 1878
500 bushels of sweet potatoes
at 25c.................... 10000
at 4Oc.................... 10000
5000 pounds of pork, at &C.. 3 C0
5000 bushels of corn, at SOC. 10000
Total value farm products
made on DeSaussure farm
QS96)...................s19,0 ,091. 05
(Which is $685. per mule.)
REED FARN-3O-MULE CROP.
313 bales of cotton, at $50 per
BALE. 9,o9V.UU
1925 bushels of cotton seed
l5c...--,............... 974.25
4. 500 bushels OF corn..... 10000
2, 500 bushels of oats, at 40c. L,OUU.5G 5G
800 bushels OF peas, at 60c.. 1SO.OO
225 tons Of hay and fodder
at $40 per tom. 2,2oO.UU
1900 bushels Of potatoes, at
25c.. NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. 51o.OO
2, 674 pounds of pork, at &C.. 1870
Total value of farm productsS16, ,652 95
LEXINGTON FARM-10 MULE CROP.
Tor $565 per mule
50 bales of cotton, at $50 per
bale... 4bU.UU
500 bushels of corn, at 50cs.. $500
1850 bushels of oats, at 40c.. 10000
2, 500 bushels of cotton seed,
at &c.,. 3l5.VO
25 bushels Of peas, at 60c.... IS 90
$50 bushels of potatoes, at Csc $3.50
Fodder. .,............... $500
Total value of CROP. .S3, 737. so
(or $373.75 per mule.)
The four share farms were very un-
satisfactory this year, and am glad
to say that the contracts have all ex-
pired and will not be renewed, hence
we will not have any share crons next
year; will only have crops on liz
land owned by the State, aid under
our full control.
FINANCIAL STATEMENT.
We fully intended to sell the entire
cotton and oat crop during the month
of December, but the price of cotton
mas been so much depressed and each
day expecting the market to react.
We have samples in the commissary
building and will sell the same in the
next few days. I am glad to report
the financial condition of the institu-
ton is better than any time for the
last four years.
We will be able to pay every dollar
the institution owes, including the
5000 for the purchase of the Reed
farm, bought last year, and pay cash
for our next years guano supply,
which has been bought some time ago
at very low price.