126 GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF ALABAMA. 



CONCLUSION. 







This description of the ores and industrial materials, so 

 abundant in this valley, would be incomplete without a 

 reference to its adaptation for their manufacture and utiliza- 

 tion. The contiguity of the raw materials, the short trans- 

 portation necessary to bring them all together are features 

 that ought not to be omitted. It is a noticable feature 

 throughout this valley. To this must be added, the abund- 

 ance of water, both from large springs and everflowing 

 streams. Most of these streams rise in the coal field on the 

 S. E. side, and flow by sinuous courses across the valley. 

 Several of these streams as they leave the valley, afford good 

 water power. All of them are copious enough for steam 

 and furnace use. Each one of these streams . from the coal 

 field cuts a passage to the coal through which unlimited sup- 

 plies of it may be obtained. Each of them as it leaves the 

 valley makes a similar passage to the coal on the N. W. 

 side. This is of special advantage, near the lower end of the 

 valley where the supply of coal ceases on the S. E. side, 

 the stream that there cuts through the N. W. rim opens a 

 way into one of the best portions of the Warrior Coal Field. 

 It is known as the Gurley Creek and Upper Warrior region. 

 It has never yet been geologically examined by the State 

 Survey, but is known to the writer, and therefore this state- 

 ment is made advisedly. 



Where the Calvert fork of the Little Warrior cuts the N. 

 W. rim, access to the Berry Mountain coal, also of much 

 value is easily obtained. 



It will thus be readily perceived that with two lines of ex- 

 posure of iron ores and one of Carboniferous limestone in 

 this narrow valley, and ample coal accessible on both sides 

 at its very edge, there must be economy in transportation of 

 raw material that has not yet been elsewhere realized. Add 



