Sugar Planter [West Baton Rouge, LA], November 17, 1860
We take the following from the Yorkville (S. C.) Enquirer:
An inquiry made in a recent number of the Southern Guardian, whether negro shoes of Carolina make could be had anywhere in Columbia, together with other advertising influences, has developed the grateful fact that more than one, perhaps between two and three hundred thousand pairs of brogans are made yearly in South Carolina. The largest factory we have heard of—Mr. Lynch’s, of Cheraw—turns out one hundred pairs per day, and is patronized by planters in various parts of the State. The next largest belongs to Mr. Allen, of Camden, who now puts in the Florida, Alabama, Mississippi and Arkansas market upwards of 15,000 pair annually; and is making arrangements hereafter to manufacture 50,000 pairs per annum, to meet the demand which the popularity of his shoes has created on the plantations of the West. We could place our finger on perhaps more than a dozen shops, in the upper districts, which manufacture each from 500 to 5000 pairs of negro shoes annually.