Mine Index 3517 Consolidated Coal Company, Rose Hill Mine

Mine Index Number: 3517

Company Name:	Consolidated Coal Company
Mine Name:	Rose Hill Mine
Start Date:	1874	End Date:	1904
Type of Mine:	Underground
Total acres shown:	516
Acres after map date:		General Area of mining acres shown:
The source map for the Consolidated Coal Company of St. Louis mines in this area is very poor, and the boundaries between the separate mines could not be distinguished. The acreage reported is the total for mine index numbers 3513, 3515, 3517 and 3518.

Shaft, Slope, Drift or Tipple Location(s)

Type	County	Township-Range	Section	Part Section

Main shaft

St. Clair

1N 8W

17

SE NW SE

Air shaft

St. Clair

1N 8W

17

SW NE SE

Geology

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

Herrin

90-132

6.0-7.0

RPB

Production

Company

Mine Name

Date

Production (tons)

Hazard, Wilson and Company (add)	Hazard and Wilson (add)	pre1874-1882	25,000 Production and ownership prior to 1882 are unknown. The Coal Report of 1882 indicates 24 acres were mined.

Rose Hill Mining Company (add)	Rose Hill (add)	1883-1887	76,110.5

Consolidated Coal Company of St. Louis lessees Rose Hill Mining Company, Phillips & Weber (add)	Rose Hill (add)	1887-1889	23,455

Consolidated Coal Company of St. Louis (add)	Rose Hill (add)	1889-1896	71,190 Idle 1890, 1891, 1895

John Groom (add)	Rose Hill (add)	1896-1897	35,753

Consolidated Coal Company (add)	Rose Hill (add)	1897-1904	163,168

Total Production: 394,676.5

Production Notes

Coal Report production (if available)

Sources of Data

Source Map

Map Date

Original Scale

Digitized Scale

Map Type

Microfilm, document 350961

3-30-1910

1:2400

1:5296

Final

Atlas of St. Clair County

1874

1:36205

1:36205

Secondary source

Annotated Bibliography (Data source - brief description of information)

Coal Reports - Production, ownership, years of operation, seam, thickness, depth, mine type.

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

Microfilm map, document 350961, reel 03134, frame 4 - Shaft locations, mine outline, method.

Atlas of St. Clair County, Illinois, 1874, Warner and Beers, Chicago, Illinois - Shaft location, years of operation.