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cheap quarrying, are numerous in all this region. No clays 

 were seen except the usual residual clays from the decomposi- 

 tion of the limestone and a clay occurring close to Evergreen in 

 the pits of Wild Brothers. Analyses 5, 6 and 7 of Table F, 

 will show sufficiently well the character of the limestone in this 

 section. 



The Evergreen occurrences have attracted attention because 

 of their location on the line of a great railroad system within 

 short distance, of tide water. 



Farther to the east this limestone formation extends across 

 Alabama and into Georgia and Florida, but as there is no north- 

 south railroad east of the Louisville and Nashville at this time, 

 the investigations have gone no further. 



To summarize : While the St. Stephens limestone outcrops 

 across the State from the Mississippi line to the Chattahoochee 

 River, often occupying broad belts, attention has been concen- 

 trated on those localities which lie upon navigable streams or 

 upon railroad lines terminating in Gulf ports. As compared 

 with the Demopolis division of the Selma chalk, this limestone 

 is more uniform in composition, higher in lime content, softer 

 and more easily quarried and crushed, and in geographical posi- 

 tion many miles nearer the Gulf. 



Its thickness, on the other hand, is much less, although suffi- 

 cient to supply an indefinite number of manufactories with raw 

 material for cement. 



