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by any other region in the state). The total capacity is 

 larger in proportion to area and population than in any 

 other region, except — in the case of population — no. 14, 

 which is practically uninhabited. Six of the mills oper- 

 ate tram-roads, aggregating 108 miles in length, but 

 most of these pass through other regions as well. At 

 the same time there is no telling how many logs from 

 this region are hauled out to mills elsewhere. 



C. The Eutaw Belt. 



This takes its name indirectly from the town of 

 Eutaw, the county-seat of Greene County. It is a nar- 

 row belt, more easily defined geologically than geograph- 

 ically, bordering the short-leaf pine belt on the south- 

 west. It covers about 1,500 square miles in Alabama, 

 and extends without much change into Georgia and Mis- 

 sissippi. 



References.— Bartram (388-398?), Lyell (37-41), 

 Smith 8 (290-303, 321, 350, and several county descrip- 

 tions). 



Geology and soils. — This belt coincides with the out- 

 crop of the Eutaw formation, a division of the Cretace- 

 ous lying next above the Tuscaloosa. The formation con- 

 sists mostly of laminated clays and cross-bedded sands, 

 and the latter are more or less glauconitic and phos- 

 phatic. The Lafayette red loam seems to cover the 

 greater part of the area, however, as in most other parts 

 of the coastal plain. The soils are similar to those of the 

 short-leaf pine belt, but a little richer, on the average, 

 owing no doubt to the greater amount of potassium and 

 phosphorus in the formation. 



Topography and hydrography. — The topography does 

 not differ much from that of region 6A. Although rather 

 less hilly, on the whole, there is along Autauga Creek at 

 Prattville an inland-facing escarpment about 200 feet 

 high, which when viewed from a mile or two to the 

 northeastward looks like a small mountain. 



In proportion to area this region has more creeks and 

 rivers than the other two divisions of the central pine 



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