100 GEOLOGIOAL SURVEY OF ALABAMA. 
owned by an old planter named Mennis Lemley, living 0? 
the plantation just south of it; I gave the C. seam the name 
of “Cubical seam” on account of its having a cubical frac- 
ture; and named the D. seam “Figh seam,” in remembrance 
of my friend George M. Figh, who died in Dallas, Texas. 
In passing through by Peter’s mines slope in April, 1890, 
I noticed that the B. slope was stopped. 
I do not remember whether my examination of these 
seams in 1859 decided the question as to whether they were 
overturned; that is, the bottom slate on top like the Dodd, 
Cooper, Shaft, Beebee, and Cannel seams, or not.a 
There is a thin seam between the B. and C. seams of 
about two to two and a half feet in thickness, that has 
never been worked. At the boundary fault, south of Peter’s 
mines, there is an outcrop on Shoal Creek in section 12, 
township 24, range 11 east, that bends over and forms a 
complete arch, plainly to be seen exposed on the bank of 
the creek thirty-one years ago; it may be covered up now 
by the falling in of the creek bank. This is one of the seams 
of the boundary fault measures. If the Figh, Cubical, 
Lemley, and A. seams are not overturned with the bottom 
slate on top like the Dodd, Cooper, Shaft, Beebee, and Can- 
nell seams on Little Mayberry Creek, then there must be a 
fault betweeu the two series of seams. I have not seen any 
surface evidence of any fault between them, more than the 
“hitch” in the measures about the middle of section 12, 
forming a slight zig-zag in their outcrops. 
The first mining done in the “Overturned Measures” was 
by the Alabama Coal Mining Company in or about the year 
1857, when they opened a series of “drifts” on Little May- 
berry Creek, in the Cooper seam, the Shaft seam, and Bee- 
bee seam ; then in the year 1859, the company sunk a slope 
on the Shaft seam to a depth of about 160 feet along the 
slope, the seam having a rate of dip of 60° to 61°. The 
company obtained a hoisting engine and boilers from 
Wilkesbarre, Pennsylvania, the cylinder of which is now in 
the scrap pile at the Shelby Rolling Mill, Helena. About 
alt seems most probable that these seams also are overturned, for at 
Thompson’s Mill, a quarter of a mile south of the L-mley seam, occurs 
the instance of a coal seam with Cambrian rocks immediately above it, 
shown in the illustration given in the introductory chapter. E. A.S, 
