40 GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF ALABAMA. 



Clay foot 6 in. 



BlacMmnd and Coal : 1 foot 11 in. 



Clay foot 4 in. 



Hard rock supposed to be bed rock. 



Whole thickness of seam 12 feet 6 inches. Drilling done 

 in southwest of southwest of S. 22, T. 13 of E. 2 east. 



It cannot yet be known if this drilling gives an average 

 section of this seam. The small amount of under clay here, 

 seems not to be in proportion to the thickness of -the seam. 

 And the absence of any clay above the rock parting excludes 

 the idea of its being a double seam. Then the rock parting- 

 may be local ; at one opening made on the Howard seam 

 No. 3, a very hard rock was encountered imbedded in the 

 coal; that opening was abandoned, and another made 100 

 yards farther east, where no such rock existed. 



Where this seam crosses Dearmon Creek in N. E. \ of 

 S. 22, T. 13, E. 2 east, a better view of its surroundings was 

 obtained ; though the seam being cut by the creek in deep 

 water nothing* could be there learned of its size or structure. 

 Large amounts of coal were washed out here by the great 

 flood of July, 1872. Wagon loads of it were gathered up and 

 hauled off in after years. 



About 55 feet above this seam is another one cut by this 

 creek, No. 8 of the General Section. It also is cut in deep water 

 and while the coal could be distinctly felt with a pole, yet 

 only, the surroundings of the seam could be seen. It is 

 overlaid by 8 to 10 feet of dark slate, and 10 feet of hard 

 gnarly cap rock. This rock weathers out rough and scaly, 

 giving it an appearance readily recognized. The slates and 

 this cap rock very much resemble, if they are not identical 

 with, the slates and cap rock, over the Waide se'am in S. 27, 

 T. 13, E. 1 east, heretofore mentioned. While this evidence 

 alone is not conclusive on the question of identy of seams, 

 yet taken in connection with the fact that no other seam in 

 this Field has as much similarity in surroundings, gives 

 their supposed identity a degree of probability. From the 

 evidence obtained it seems to be a necessary inference that 



