Mine Index 6671 Nicholas Cotton, Cotton Shaft

Mine Index Number: 6671

Company Name:	Nicholas Cotton
Mine Name:	Cotton Shaft
Start Date:	Circa 1864	End Date:	Unknown
Type of Mine:	Underground
Total acres shown:	None This mine is within a larger area mined by the Old Bruce Mine (mine index 2357).
Acres after map date:		General Area of mining acres shown:
Not Shown On Map.

Shaft, Slope, Drift or Tipple Location(s)

Type	County	Township-Range	Section	Part Section

Main shaft

Grundy

32N 8E

25

NE SW NW

Geology

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

Colchester

98

LW (old longwall)

Production

Company

Mine Name

Date

Production (tons)

Nicholas Cotton (add)	Cotton (add)	circa 1864	unknown According to History of Grundy County (1914), this was the first shaft sunk at Braceville but it only operated for a short time. Production and date of operation are unknown. In Miners of the Prairie, a cooperative shaft was said to have been sunk in 1858 at the present site of Braceville, which may indicate this mine. In Grundy County Sesquitennial, Nicholas Cotton was said to have donated land to the village for Cotton Cemetery. The road along the mine was also said to have been called “Smokey Row” because of the row of “black, unpainted, one-story houses” there.

Production Notes

Coal Report production (if available)

Sources of Data

Source Map

Map Date

Original Scale

Digitized Scale

Map Type

Atlas of Grundy County

1874

1:6336

1:6336

Secondary source

Annotated Bibliography (Data source - brief description of information)

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

Mine notes (Grundy County) - Mine name.

Atlas of Grundy County, 1874 - Shaft location, mine name.

History of Grundy County, 1882 - Depth.