S. of the mouth of Binian's Creek, and distant from it 150 yardsnear Mr. Pruett's (a little N. of last named locality), coal is found, 30 or 40 feet above the bed of the creek. It is situated in the side of a hill of deep yellow slaty clay.

Two miles S. W. of D. Smith's, on Winter's Mill Creek, is a bed of excellent coal, about 12 inches thick.

At Mr. John Williams'-S. 12, T. 17, R. 12 W., coal was found in a well, 28 inches thick. Mr. Williams says, that half-a-mile W. of his house, the coal is 3 feet thick. Coal is here very abundant. It is found in three Sections.

At Boxe's Creek, in S. 10, T. 16, R. 12 W., Mr. Moore says that there is a coal-bed two miles N. E. of his house, from which smiths in Fayetteville haul coal. Mr. Pryor says that there is another bed halfa-mile S. E. from his mill, but that the nearest coal that he knows of N. of his mill is about 4 miles up New River, near Adley Harris', and onthe E. side of the river.

Near Mr. McCollum's, S. 18, T. 14, R. 11 W., a bed of good coal, 1 foot thick, has been found, situated 30 or 35 feet above the bed of Mill Creek. Mr. McCollum says that there is another bed of coal, in the bed of New River, three-quarters of a mile S. E. of his house. It has been worked two feet deep, but the bottom has not been reached.

Mr. G. Brown's, S. 27, T. 13, R. 11 W., three-quarters of a mile S. of the fork of New River. The coal at this place is 2 feet thick, but is said to contain a great quantity of sulphur. There are several beds upon Mr. Brown's land.

Mr. Stephen Vaughan's, S. 23, T. 12, R. 12 W. Here is a bed of hard coal, which has been excavated 3 feet deep, but the bottom of the coal has not yet been reached. The bed is nearly level. Coal is hauled from this place, 15 miles N. W., to Pikeville, and 8 miles S. W. to dif ferent smiths.

Lemuel Burnet's, on the W. fork of New River. Here extensive beds of coal are found, but, as usual, none of them have been worked to the bottom. The coal-heavers generally raise coal from two or three feet deep; and, as the beds are in the bottoms and sides of creeks, the water hinders them from going deeper. All the coal on this side of the coal field is very hard. The smiths say it is good coal. Mr. Burnet says that a Mr. Loden has discovered a coal-bed some 10 miles W. of this, said to be of good quality.

On Buttahatchee Creek, near where the road to Russellville crosses, a bed of coal, 1 foot thick, was discovered in the bank of the creek.

Seven miles S. E. of Mr. Northington's, S. 34, T. 9, R. 15 W., numerous small seams of coal on a fork of Buttahatchee Creek.

At New London, S. 22, T. 9, R. 10 W., information was obtained of a coal-bed, three or four feet thick, on Big Bear Creek.

Sipsey Fork of the Warrior.-At Old Baltimore (eastern part of Winston county), there is a bed in the river, said to be thick. About 50 feet above the river a thin seam of 2 or 3 inches; and another, 3 miles N. W., near the top of the highest hills in that direction, in some places 2 feet thick, and of good quality.

Two miles from the mouth of Rock Creek (near the last named locality), is found a very extensive bed of coal, running up the creek several miles; where measured, the bed was 2 feet thick. 100 feet above the bed of the creek, there is another seam, 6 inches thick, of good quality; and S. of the creek, another seam, in the hills, of 8 inches.

In the bed of the Brushy Fork of Sipsey Fork, there is said to be coal of some thickness.

Near the mouth of Roberts' Creek, emptying into Sipsey Fork, there is a coal bed 7 or 8 inches in thickness, 50 feet above the bed of the river. At old Warrior Town (junction of Sipsey and Mulberry forks), a bed occurs, a little over 2 feet in thickness, 50 feet above the river-extends several miles up Sipsey Fork, and at least a mile down stream.

Mr. James Hanby (whose mill is 5 or 6 miles up the Mulberry Fork, from its junction with Sipsey Fork), says that he gets his coal 4 miles S. W. of his mill, near the Oakey Hollow road-that the bed is in the top of a hill, and 4 feet thick.

Locust Fork of the Warrior.-At the mouth of Slab Creek, coal shows for over a mile up that stream, about 18 inches thick. From the mouth of the creek, down the river, the coal continues 4 or 5 miles, showing occasionally. It was said by some persons that a bed of 4 feet had been found in this region; none measured by Mr. Powell would average over 18 inches. Up the river from Slab Creek, the coal is said to extend half-a-mile.

From the junction of the Locust Fork and Little Warrior, up the latter stream, several thin beds are found; one is about a foot thick, but not good. Some thin seams have also been found on the left of the two forks, which unite just above where the Huntsville road crosses the

stream.

The basin of the Little Warrior is well supplied with coal, particularly the part lying next to Murphree's Valley, where three beds occur in pretty regular succession, one above another, varying from 2 to 4 feet in thickness.

On Five-mile Creek, S. 33, T. 16, R. 3 W., coal was found, 50 feet above the bed of the creek. Another bed, in S. 4, T. 17, R. 3 W., is nearly 3 feet thick, and horizontal; it may be seen for 200 yards.

N. E. of S. 25, T. 16, R. 4 W., another bed of coal, about 1 foot thick, 104 feet above the great bed in the creek.

At Mr. Lynn's, where the Jasper road crosses Five-mile Creek, coal nearly 4 feet thick was found, 150 feet above the bed of the creek. Another seam, of 1 foot, 30 feet above the former.

A bed of coal, 4 feet thick, is said to have been discovered as far north as Lick Creek, a fork of Flint Creek, in Morgan county.

Cahawba Coal Field.-Near Mr. Truss', S. 25, T. 16, R. 1 W., the coal beds are said to be numerous, but not very thick, and the coal not good for smith's use.

Near the top of a hill, S. of the Cahawba River, S. E. of Mr. Truss', coal was found, 40 or 50 feet above the bed of the river.

In S. 26, T. 16, R. 1 E., is a coal bed from which a great quantity of excellent coal has been obtained. It has been proved to be 3 to 4 feet thick.

A quarter of a mile N. of the house of Mr. Thomas Atkins (near the last named locality), there occurs a bed, said to lie nearly vertical, and to be 4 feet thick-apparently good coal. Some beds, within a mile and a half from this place, are said to be 8 feet thick. Coal is abundant on the N. side of the Cahawba Valley, almost to its northeastern extremity.

Near the forks of the Cahawba, S. 23, T. 18, R. 2 W., on a branch called Coal Creek, a regular bed of coal is seen, lying nearly horizontal for several hundred yards, in the banks of the creek; then 3 or 4 beds appear to join it at right angles. The examination of this locality was unavoidably left incomplete.

ness.

At the head of Black Creek there is a bed, said to be 4 feet in thickThe N. E. limit of coal here appears to be in S. 16, T. 15, R. 2 E. Coosa Coal Field.-Broken Arrow Creek, on the road leading from Ashville to Robinson's Ferry, a bed of coal was found, which had been excavated to the depth of 3 feet, without reaching the bottom. It is of good quality. Three or four coal-pits are worked in this region, within a few miles. A Mr. Sims has a bed 3 to 6 feet thick; and Mr. Warren a bed of 4 feet: S. 1, T. 16, R. 3 E.

S. 27, T. 16, R. 3 E., a bed is said to occur, 2 feet thick, and of good quality.

Mr. Barber, S. 17, T. 15, R. 4 E., has a bed of excellent coal, nearly horizontal, known to be over three feet through.

Wm. Coleman, S. 21, T. 15, R. 4 E., has a bed from which large quantities of coal have been hauled to the Coosa River.

Mr. Boxe's, on Trout Creek, S. 7, T. 15, R. 5 E. The thickness of the beds on this creek is generally 3 feet-coal good-situated only 3 miles from the Coosa River.

COAL AND IRON OF THE RED MOUNTAIN COUNTRY OF ALABAMA.

Red Mountain Iron and Coal Company-Pamphlet of Col. D. S. Troy -Quality and extent of the beds-Topography-Cahaba River navigation-Railroad conveniences-Productiveness of soil-ClimateAdaptability to white labor.

An interesting pamphlet has been recently prepared by Col. D. S. Troy, of Montgomery, Alabama, law-partner of Ex-Governor Watts, and a gentleman of high position at our bar, in which the writer advertises for sale the mineral lands of the company which he represents. Although the pamphlet is published as an advertisement, we could not furnish our readers with better information than it contains. Especially is this information of importance at the present time, because of the interest which attaches to the two great railroads of the State, the South and North, and the Alabama and Chattanooga, which must intersect in the region described by Colonel Troy.

The mineral lands of the Red Mountain Iron and Coal Company, lie in Shelby and Jefferson counties, in the State of Alabama, from three to fifteen miles south of Elyton, the county town of Jefferson county.

Shade's Mountain, Red Mountain, and several smaller elevations, with a general direction parallel to the Cahaba River, and lying on each side of it, were formed by volcanic action, which lifted up the stratified crust of the earth from the southeast toward the northwest. The strata dip to the southeast, at an angle of about thirty-five degrees; and the ascent of the hills from that side is very gradual, being generally less than the dip of the strata, from the accumulation of soil in the valleys and on the slopes. On the northwestern side the strata is broken and the ascent is generally precipitous, rising in some places to several hundred feet above the valleys. These valleys are generally level, and all the ranges are frequently intersected by gaps, through which roads,

either turnpike or rail, can be made with much less difficulty than is usually met with in broken countries.

The coal is bituminous and varies in quality, and in different localities. On the lands of this Company, over which the South and North Railroad is now running, near where Buck Creek empties into the Cahaba River, seventeen veins have been discovered, eight of which are from two to four feet thick, out-cropping on and underlying the Company's lands for miles. I am not aware that any of the veins in these coal-fields have been worked beyond a few hundred feet; the system of mining being, to begin at the out-crop and follow the vein; but as far as they have been worked the coal improves in quality, and in some instances in quantity also. No one, as yet, seems able to conjecture the extent of the deposits. Some of the veins have been worked to a limited extent on the lands of this Company, and coal in considerable quantities is now being mined from the same veins at the Cahaba Coal Mines on adjoining lands. This coal is shipped by the South and North Railroad to Limekiln, on the Selma, Rome and Dalton Railroad, and thence to Selma, Mobile, Montgomery, and other points. It is well adapted to smelting iron, and it is no exaggeration to say that the supply owned by this Company is inexhaustible.

A few miles to the north of the coal fields is the iron stratum of Red Mountain; this stratum out-crops on the southwestern slope of the mountain one or two hundred feet only above the level of the valley.. It is a solid stratum of iron ore, about thirty feet thick, composed of a number of substrata, which yield from twenty-five to sixty per cent. of iron; some of the substrata, many feet thick and apparently unlimited in extent, have been found by actual working to yield regularly over fifty per cent. of pig iron.

The ore is red hematite, and the iron made from it, is pronounced by competent judges to be equal to any made from ore of that description in any part of the world. The ore is quite soft and remarkably free from dampness and earthy matter. No mining skill is required to get it out, and it is not necessary to dry or cleanse it for the furnace. A common laborer with no instruments except a pick and a crowbar, can get out a ton of it ready for the crusher in a few hours. This stratum of ore out-crops on the lands of this Company. It dips to the southwest at an angle of about thirty-five degrees, and underlies several› square miles of the Company's land.

A heavy stratum of limestone, containing nearly all qualities of lime-stone from marble downward, underlies the stratum of iron ore, and out-crops a few hundred feet higher up Red Mountain, in many places