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this time the company acquired some new stockholders and 
changed the name of the firm from Alabama Coal Mining 
Company to Montevallo Coal Mining Company, but I do 
not remember the exact date of the change. 
The company found it necessary to bring men from Penn- 
sylvania to fit up the engine and hoisting machinery; one of 
them, John Hartley, an Englishman, was brought to build 
the engine bed and boiler masonry.b 
Some machinists also came at the same time Hartley did. 
The company had gotten the slope sunk by means of 
horse power to the depth of 160 or 165 feet, and had driven 
the gangways out one or two hundred feet previous to my 
taking charge as superintendent of the company’s works, 
obligating myself to keep the underground surveys ad- 
vanced up to the full progress of the work at the end of 
each month, and furnish the company with a geological 
map showing the seams on their property, which was done 
under some difficulties.c 
The aforesaid hoisting engine, boilers, and machinery 
from Wilkesbarre, Pennsylvania, was the first steam power 
machinery for hoisting coal ever used in Alabama. 
The stockholders of the company who first commenced 
to use the aforesaid hoisting machinery, were Col. John S. 
Storrs, of Montevallo, president of the company; Judge 
Cooper, of Lowndes county ; Dr. Miller, of Wilcox county ; 
Alexander White, of Selma and Talladega; Gen. C. Robin- 
son, of Lowndes or Wilcox counties, and John R. Keenan, 
of Selma, Ala., etc. These were the principal stockholders 
when the machinery was obtained. A little later on ex-Gov. 
T. H. Watts, George M. Figh, Benjamin B. Davis, and Dr. 
I. T. Tichenor, all of Montgomery, became stockholders in 
the Montevallo Coal Mining Company, so it will be seen 
bHartley, soon after his arrival, told me he had been advised to bring 
a bowie knife and carry it with him all the time he was here; after en- 
joying a good laugh at his expense for his causeless fears, I advised 
him to keep away from bar rooms and grog shops, and bury that knife 
until he started back to Pennsylvania. 
ceMy first map presented to the board uf directors showing the out- 
crop of the Montevallo seam, near where the mining is now going on, 
as shown on the accompanying map, was made on strong brown paper, 
called cotton paper, as it was mostly used to wrap up cotton samples in, 
