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UNITED STATES

-SOUTH CAROLINA

produce was 1,240,540 bales ; iii 1911, 1,648,712 bales, and in 1912, 1,184,000 (estimate). Under tobacco in 1912 were 35,000 acres, yielding 24,500,000 pounds, valued at 2,670,000 dollars. The rearing of live-stock is of no great importance.

The State has active fisheries, mainly oysters, Avhiting, shad, and sea-bass.

The minerals Avorked are phosphate rock (169,156 long tons, valued at 673,156 dollars in 1911), granite (336,467 dollars), clay products (669,794 dollars), gold 972 tine ounces ^^20,100 dollars), silver, manganese, iron ore, lime, and monazite in small quantities. The value of tlir; total mineral output (including coal products, sand, &c.) was 1,804 dollars in 1911.

The manufacturing industries of the State in 1910 had a total capital of 173,221,000 dollars ; the establishments numbered 1,854 ; their proprietors and firm members, 1,737 ; their clerks, &c., 3,257, and wage-earners, 73,046. The raw material used was valued at 66,351,000 dollars, and the outjjut at 113,236,000 dollars. Statistics of the chief industries for 1910 are as follows : —

Industries

Capital

Wage- Material earners used

Output

Cotton goods

Lumber and timber products. Cotton-seed and oil-cako

Fertilisers 1

Gas 1

Dollars

125,549,000 15,010,000

6,880,000 11,857,000

1,431,000

Number Dollars

45,454 41,303,000

14,604 '. 3,981,000

1,765 ' 8,720,000

1,851 5,629,000

127 114,000

1

Dollars

65,930,000

13,141,000

10,903,000

9,025,000

334,000

There are also works for making and repairing carriages, waggons, cars, <&c., flour and grist mills, distilleries, tobacco factories, and turpentine and rosin works. The turpentine and rosin industries, formerly prosperous, are now losing ground owing to the exhaustion of suitaljle timber.

The chief port is Charleston, from which in 1911, the exports were valued at 10,830,418 dollars (2,256,336^.), and into which the imports amounted to 6,433,513 dollars (1,340, 315^.) Harbour improvements at Charleston, almost completed, are the dredging of the channel to the Naval Station and dry dock 4 miles up the river, and the formation of a large coaling station on the north side of the city.

In 1910 the length of railway in the State was 3,441 miles, and 140 miles of electric railway.

There is a British Vice-Consul at Charleston.

Books of Reference.

The Reports of the various Administrative Departments of the State. Ravenel Mrs. St. J.), Charleston; The Place and the People. New York and London, 1906.