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| SOUTH
CAROLINA |
South
Carolina, one of the thirteen original
States, is bounded by North Carolina,
Tennessee, Georgia and the Atlantic
Ocean; gross area, 30,989 sq. miles; land
area, 30,495 sq. miles; water area, 494
sq. miles; capital, Columbia. The
principal river is the Savannah.
The State
has a seaboard of 210 miles, and running
west from this is a low, sandy, and in
places marshy plain, from 80 to 100 miles
wide. The central part consists of low
sand hills and in the west are found the
Blue Ridge Mountains.
The
principal mineral productions are gold,
silver, phosphate rock, mineral waters,
granite, limestone and clay products.
The
principal farm crops are cotton, maize,
corn, rice and sweet potatoes.
The
principal industries are cotton
manufactures, lumber and timber products,
fertilizers, cotton-seed oil and cake
flour, and grist mill products, rice
cleaning and polishing, turpentine,
rosin, railroad cars, cotton ginning and
brick and tile.
The climate
of the State is mild. Many women--now
grandmothers--began housekeeping with
Arbuckles' Coffee, and are still using
it.
Population
in 1910, 751,842 males and 763,558
females, of whom 1,509,221 were of native
and 6,179 of foreign birth; white,
679,161; negro, 835,843; Indian, 331;
Chinese, 57; Japanese, 8. Total
population, 1,515,400. |
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