CAHABA COAL FIELD: LOLLEY BASIN. 89 
erate, see the section given in the first chapter: For the 
relative position of the seams of this basin, see the Dailey 
. Creek Vertical Section, and the Dry Creek Horizontal Section, 
from “K” to “L,” on the accompanying map. 
The rate of dip of the measures of this basin varies from 
fifty degrees on its north edge, next to the Piney Woods 
fault, to one or two degrees at the synclinal south of the 
Elias Walker place. Ata point at about half a mile east of 
the Elias Walker house Lick Creek falls about one hundred 
feet vertical over a perpendicular cliff of conglomerate ; 
this is known in the settlement near as the “Big Falls.” 
There has been no mining done hitherto in this basin; the 
country is sparsely settled, about two years ago six families 
were all the inhabitants it then had; they were Elias 
Walker and his son Isaac Walker, Newton Lolley, Anderson 
Allen, Henry Clark, and a well respected colored man 
namea Dustin Lee and his family. The Lolley Basin is 
healthy but not well adapted for farming purposes, except 
along the creek bottoms. 
My first examination of this basin was made in 1860, 
when I was employed by the Alabama Coal Mining Com- 
pany to make a preliminary survey of their lands in this 
basin, and to make a more thorough survey of their lands 
in that portion of the Montevallo Basin which was then 
tapped by their branch railroad. 
