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but placing it in entirely different decades. He has 

 orders now for 5000 gallons (jugs) from Birmingham 

 and Bessemer, at eight cents a gallon. He has two 

 hogback kilns with a capacity of 800 jugs each. His 

 clay is found in a washed out old road and is overlaid 

 by 10 feet gravel. 



Rye has a pottery, 6 miles north of Millville, Detroit 

 P. O. Davidson Brothers have one also in same neigh- 

 borhood. Lloyd has one near the Mississippi line in 

 Itawainba county. These compete with potteries at 

 Holly Springs, Mississippi, and Pinson's 12 miles 

 from Jackson Tenn., for the West Tenn. and Miss, 

 trade. From State line at Gattman >to Glenn Allen, 

 clays are very abundant and of fine quality all along 

 the Kansas Citv Railroad, and this is destined to be 

 an important center of trade in all kinds of clay 

 manufacture. Beaver Creek flows nearly west, par- 

 allel with the railroad. Beaverton is a station on Sec- 

 tion 17, Township 13, Range 14 west. One mile west 

 of William Brown's place, Section 10, and on Ed- 

 mund Barnes', Section 16 and on Ira Sizemore's, Sec- 

 tion IT, clay abounds. Brown has ten feet blue 

 clay overlaid by 10 feet cross banded yellow sand. 5 

 miles east of Beaverton and 2 miles west of Guin, 

 there is 10 feet white and yellow sand and underlaid 

 by 3 inches of ferruginous conglomerate. 



FAYETTE COUNTY. 



Over the greater part of t'he area of Fayette county, 

 the sitrata of the Coal Measures are covered, to a 

 depth increasing as we go westward, by beds of the 

 Tuscaloosa formation capped with the red loam and 

 pebbles of the Lafayette. Among the strata of the 

 Tuscaloosa there are many beds of clay of purple, 

 gray and white colors. About the Court House, a bed 



