92 GEOLOGICAL RELATIONS OF ALABAMA CLAYS. 



deal of the material is shipped now to Bessemer, 

 where it is worked up into fire brick. Further north, 

 near Woodstock again are rather extensive diggings 

 on t'he line of the Birmingham Mineral Railroad, 

 from which the clay is shipped to Bessemer and used 

 as above indicated. 



Dr. Ries has investigated the clays from both of 

 these localities', and his results are given below in the 

 body of the report, under No. 112 for the Bibbville's 

 specimen, and No. Ill for that from Woodstock. He 

 classes them with the fire clays. Another specimen 

 from Woodsttiock, classed by Dr. Rle as brick clay, 

 has been tested, (No. 126, A. Stevens). 



TUSCALOOSA COUNTY. 



The utilization of t'he clays of this formation was 

 begun in Tuscaloosa county by Daniel Cribbs in the 

 year 1829. He was the pioneer, though it is said that 

 W. D. Preston had a pottery in Autauga county in 

 1828. C. K. Oliver has had a pottery in this county 

 since 1856. Peter Cribbs, in Lamar county, carried 

 on the business for twenty-five years. He was the 

 brother of Daniel, whose son, Harvey H. Cribbs, has 

 for many years been more or less engaged in working 

 the clays along Cribbs Creek, two miles south of Tus- 

 caloosa, and 1 later four miles east of town on the Ala- 

 bama Great Southern Railroad. The Lloyd family 

 have operated several potteries in Marion county, Al- 

 abama, and Itawamba county, Mississippi, for many 

 years. Fleming W. Cribbs, a son of Peter, has now a 

 pottery at the nervv town of Sulligent,, on the K. C. M. 

 & B. R. R,* 



Within the limits of the city of Tuscaloosa there 



*Notes of Dr. George Little. 



