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5. The prosperous city of Birmingham is in Jones' Valley. The railroad then passes through 

 Red Mountain by Grace's Gap. The rocks of the anticlinal axis show, at the junction of the 

 Lower Carboniferous with the 5 c. Clinton, an exposure of fossiliferous hematite iron ore, 28 feet 

 thick, which is being used in the production of an excellent quality of iron by the Eureka Com- 

 pany, at Oxmoor, at the next station. This bed of iron ore extends from a few miles below Pratt's 

 Ferry on the Cahaba River, in Bibb County, through St. Clair, Cherokee and De Kalb counties, 

 into Tennessee, a distance of 120 miles. W. G. 



6. S. D. Holt and Davis and Carr's collieries. W. G. 



7. Eureka Company's colliery and Central Iron Works Company at Helena. W. G. 



8. Branch railroad to Briarfield Rolling Mills and Furnaces. W. G. 



9. Cahawba coal field on the west, with branch railroad to the Montevallo coal mines of Dr. T. 

 II Aldrich. W. G. 



10. Shelby Springs, Chalybrate and sulphuretted Hydrogen water of great renown, and much 

 frequented. W. G. 



11. Columbiana branch to Shelby Iron Works. W. G. 



12. From Coosa River to Childersburgh, mountains of 2 b. Potsdam sandstone are seen to the 

 southeast from car windows. E. A. S. 



13. From Alpine to Telladega, 2 b. Potsdam sandstone mountains on the west, and 2 a. Acadian 

 slate hills toward the east. E. A. S. 



14. At Silver River, 2 a. Acadian on the east, and 2 b. Potsdam on the west. E. A. S. 



