CAHABA COAL FIELD: OVERTURNED MEASURES. 99 
Continuing on down the creek seventy-three feet farther, 
passing over sixty-tbree feet in thickness of measures, you 
arrive at the “Three Feet Seam ;” continuing on down the 
creek, a distance of three hundred and thirty-six (336) 
feet, you pass over two hundred and eighty-eight (288) feet 
in thickness of measures, and arrive at the Beebee seam; 
thence down the said Little Mayberry Creek, square across 
the measures a distance of five hundred and twenty-nine 
(529) feet, passing over four hundred thirty-eight feet in 
thickness of measures, you arrive at the Cannel seam. The 
rate of dip of the rocks you have passed over areas follows : 
at the conglomerate between the “fault” and the Dodd seam 
the rate of dip is sixty-one degrees; at the Helena, sixty- 
one degrees ; at the Shaft seam, sixty degrees ; at the Bee- 
bee seam, fifty-nine degrees ; and at the Cannel seam, fifty- 
six degrees. 
The average thickness of the above mentioned seams, as 
evidenced by the tests made, are as follows: 
Dodd, 4 to 6 feet. 
Cooper, 214 feet. 
Shaft seam, 4 feet. 
Three Feet, 214 to 3 feet. 
Beebee, 3 feet. 
Cannell, 3 feet, part of it bony. 
For relative position of the seams of the Overturned 
Measures, see the Little Mayberry Creek Vertical Section on 
the accompanying map. The seams near the south bound- 
ary of the Overturned Measures have been worked for sev- 
eral years by the Brierfield Coal and Iron Company at what 
is known as Peter’s mines; these seams have a south or 
southeast direction of dip, the same as the Dodd, Shaft, 
Beebee, and Cannel seams, on Little Mayberry Creek. 
The company sunk two slopes on the Lemley or B. seam, 
and from the bottom of this slope they tunnelled to the C. 
or “Cubical vein,” and to the D. or “Figh seam ;” they also 
tunnelled southwards to the A. seam, and hoisting the coal 
from all of them at the B. slope in the Lemley seam. My 
examination of these seams was made in 1859, when I gave 
to the B. seam the name of “Lemley,” part of it being then 
