CHAPTER XII. 
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THE DAILEY CREEK BASIN. 
The Dailey Creek basin is situated to the east and north- 
east of Blocton, to the west and northwest of Montevallo, 
and to the southwest of Helena, Gurnee being in the north 
end of this basin. It is bounded on the northwest by the 
“Interior fault” and the Blocton basin, also by a portion of 
the Gould basin ; on the north and northeast by Dry Creek 
basin and Lolley basin, on the east side by the Montevallo 
basin, and on the south side by the “Overturned Measures” 
and the “South boundary fault.” 
The following is a description of the boundary of the 
Dailey Creek basin: Commencing at the gap in the Con- 
glomerate ridge where the Little Mayberry Creek cuts 
through it, at the fault where the flat measures and the 
“Overturned” measures come close together, thence north- 
westwardly along the anticlinal to.the northwest corner of 
section 15, township 22, range 4 west, thence due north 
along the section lines on the west side of sections 10 and 
3, to the southwest corner of section 34, township 21, range 
4 west; thence northeast to the northeast corner of said 
section 34; thence northwestward down Jesse’s Creek to 
the southwest corner of section 15, township 21, range 4 
west; thence northwest to the southeast edge of the Interior 
fault vertical rocks near the northwest corner of section 16, 
township 21, range 4 west ; thence southwestward along the 
southeast edge of the Interior fault leaving Boothtown to 
your left; thence close by Cadle Station, crossing the rail- 
road at this point, close by the Gardner old mine ; continu- 
ing close along the edge of the Interior fault to the edge of 
the coal field at a point about a quarter of a mile west of 
the southeast corner of section 17, township 24, range 10 
east; thence eastward along the boundary fault; after ad- 
vancing two hundred yards you will pass close by the left 
