3919

Mine Index Number: 3919

Company Name:	Chicago, Wilmington and Vermilion Coal Company
Mine Name:	B Mine
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Type of Mine:	Underground
Total acres shown:	907 The boundaries between separate mines could not be distinguished. The area shown includes Chicago, Wilmington and Vermilion Coal Company’s B Mine (mine index 3919), H Mine (mine index 3923), G Mine (mine index 3926), E Mine (mine index 3929) and C Mine (mine index 3931).
Acres after map date:		General Area of mining acres shown:

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Shaft, Slope, Drift or Tipple Location(s)

Type	County	Township-Range	Section	Part Section

Main shaft

Will

32N 9E

5

NW SE SW

Geology

		Thickness (ft)
Seam	Depth (ft)	Min	Max	Ave	Mining Method

Colchester

LW

Production

Company

Mine Name

Date

Production (tons)

Chicago, Wilmington and Vermilion Coal Co. (add)	BThis mine was not listed in the Coal Reports. The B Mine probably opened and closed before 1881, when the G Mine was the reported active mine. The 1873 Atlas of Will County shows the shaft for this mine, indicating that mining was taking place in the early 1870s. (add)

Production Notes

Coal Report production (if available)

Sources of Data

Source Map

Map Date

Original Scale

Digitized Scale

Map Type

ISGS map library, 4103.W51 i5.1-4

1935

1:31680

1:31680

Secondary source

Atlas

1873

1:31680

1:31680

Secondary source

Annotated Bibliography (Data source - brief description of information)

Directory of Illinois Coal Mines (Will County) - Mine names, mine index, ownership, years of operation, seam.

Mine notes (Will County) - Shaft location.

ISGS map library, 4103.W51 i5.1-4, sheet 1, work map compiled from J. C. Quade notes & maps - Mine outline, ownership.

Atlas Map of Will County, Illinois, compiled & published by Thompson Brothers & Burr, Elgin Illinois, 1873 - Shaft location.