CAHABA COAL FIELD : MONTEVALLO BASIN. 91 
This basin is drained by King’s Creek, Davis’ Creek, 
Little Mayberry Creek, Walker’s Camp Creek, Jim’s 
Branch, Big Mayberry Creek, Lovelady Branch, Savage 
Creek, Rocky Branch and Jesse’s Oreek. 
The highest and most prominent ridge in this basin is 
Pea Ridge (formed by the Montevallo conglomerate), a high 
ridge, flat in places, that divides the waters draining into 
Little Cahaba River, and those draining into the Big Cahaba 
River ; it is irregular in shape, becoming high between the 
head waters of the creeks and branches that drain it. Its 
altitude above Shoal Creek is over 400 feet in places. 
There are various other ridges also due to the Montevallo 
conglomerate, between the head waters of Big Mayberry 
Creek, Jim’s Creek, Little Mayberry Creek and Davis’ 
Creek that are in vertical height above Shoal Creek over 
three hundred feet of barometrical measurement. The re- 
markable feature of these ridges, is the immense amount 
of conglomerate pebbles scattered over the ground, where 
the different layers of the great Montevallo conglomerate 
(above seam of same name) crop out at the surface ; all of 
the high lands underlaid by this Montevallo conglomerate 
are remarkably healthy. 
The principal wagon roads of this basin are the Monte- 
vallo and Boothtown or Gurnee road ; the Columbiana and 
Booth’s Ferry road; the Aldrich and Blocton road ; the 
road from Bethel Church along Pea Ridge; and the Ald- 
rich and Dogwood Grove road; besides these there are 
various other roads partly grown up with undergrowth, and 
former roads that are now used as cattle trails or bridle 
paths. 
Of railroads in this basin, the Brierfield, Blocton, and 
Birmingham railroad runs close along its eastern edge, with 
stations at Dogwood and at Aldrich ; the Montevallo Coal 
and Transportation company have a short line of railroad 
running from their slope in the Montevallo seam, in the 
southeast quarter of section 24, township 22, range 4 west, 
and joining the Brierfield, Blocton and Birmingham rail- 
road a short distance south of Aldrich depot ; these are all 
the railroads connected with the basin at present. 
This basin is four and one-tenth miles (4 1-10) in length, 
