49 GEOLOGIOAL SURVEY Of ALABAMA. 
Alabama Railroad about half-way between Helena and Pel- 
ham, the railroad going through a gap cut by Buck Creek 
in said mountain. 
Various smaller ridges are formed in that part of the 
basin known as the Acton settlement, but they are mostly 
not continuous like those just described, their general trend 
is along the strike of the seams and parallel with their out- 
crops. The Cahaba river also, in one part of this basin, in 
its general course, keeps along the strike of the seams, fol- 
lowing the outcrops and slates until it reaches within a half 
a mile of the southeast boundary of the Coal Field, a point 
in section 20, township 19, range 2 west. It then makes a 
turn away from the southeast boundary again. 
The location of the synclinal and anticlinal in the northern 
part of this basin can be best understood by referring to 
the accompanying map; on the ground, both can be seen on 
the road from Bain’s Ferry to Birmingham, close to Mrs. 
Thomas N. Bailey’s house. The other synclinal next to the 
southeast edge of the basin can be seen along the same 
road at a point about a mile south of Bain’s Ferry or Ford. 
On the accompanying map the Acton horizontal section 
from “C” to “H” will show the relative position, outcrops, 
and form of the synclinal and anticlinal of this basin. 
The Brock and the Gould seams having a very low rate 
of dip, become level in the anticlinal between the Mat 
Patton place and the Mrs. Bailey place, then descending 
into the main part of the basin, the ledges of conglomerate 
above the Conglomerate seam show on both sides of the 
basin along the wagon road between Bain’s Ford and the 
Tom F. Bailey place at the edge of the Coal Field. 
There has been no mining for coal in this basin up to 
this date, except two or three test slopes to prove the 
seams ; but when the basin becomes opened up by railroads 
its coal seams will undoubtedly be developed. 
The Eureka Company’s test slope seam, of which the fol- 
lowing is a section near the surface, (but I am told it be- 
comes thicker at some depth,) is a seam of good coal and 
can be worked profitably. 
