CHAPTER VII. 
THE DRY CREEK BASIN. 
The Dry Creek basin is situated three or four miles south- 
west of Helena, and northeast of Gurnee. It is bounded on 
the north by the Eureka basin, on the east by the great 
boundary fault that divides the Cambrian from tie Carbon- 
iferous measures, on the south by the Piney Woods fault 
aud anticlinal that separate it from the Lolley basin, on the 
southwest it is bounded by the interior fault vertical coal 
measures. 
The boundary of the Dry Creek basin is as follows: 
Commencing at a point about two hundred yards northeast 
of Lacey depot, on the Brierfield, Blocton and Birmingham 
Railroad, and going thence along the Piney Woods fault, 
almost due west, for ahout two miles; thence along said 
fault at a bearing of about south 68° west, to the southwest 
corner of section 15; thence northwest to the southeast 
edge of the interior fault near the northwest corner of sec- 
tion 16, township 21, range 4 west; thence northeastwards 
along the southeast edge of the interior fault to the half 
mile post on the south side of section 25, township 20, 
range 4 west; thence nearly east, or about south 83° east, 
along the Beaver Dam fault to that part cf the boundary 
fault in section 33, township 20, range 3 west, nearly oppo- 
site the Mrs. Peel house; thence south by a few degrees 
west along the boundary fault, passing close by the south- 
west corner of section 33, leaving the Mrs. Draper house a 
few yards to the right, passing close by the middle of sec- 
tion 5, then curving around with the boundary fault a little 
more eastward, to the point of beginning at the boundary 
fault two hundred yards northeast of Lacey depot. 
This basin is drained by the Cahaba river and its tribu- 
taries, Beaver Dam Creek, Dave Redding Creek, Peel’s 
Creek, Buzzard Creek, Piney Woods Creek, and Dry Creek. 
