Mine Index 3551 Southern Coal, Coke and Mining Company, Southern Mine No. 1

Mine Index Number: 3551

Company Name:	Southern Coal, Coke and Mining Company
Mine Name:	Southern Mine No. 1
Start Date:	1889	End Date:	March 1936
Type of Mine:	Underground
Total acres shown:	346
Acres after map date:		General Area of mining acres shown:

Shaft, Slope, Drift or Tipple Location(s)

Type	County	Township-Range	Section	Part Section

Main shaft

St. Clair

1N 9W

12

SE NW NE

Air shaft

St. Clair

1N 9W

12

SE NW NE

Geology

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

Herrin

160-200

6.42

8.0

7.0

MRP

Geological Problems Reported

The roof consisted of 1 to 8 inches of clod that comes down with the coal or up to 4 feet of black shale, which was full of slips and "practically impossible to hold". The black shale was not a serious mining problem, because the condition was understood and they did not try to hold it up.

Production

Company

Mine Name

Date

Production (tons)

Avery and Randle (add)	Avery and Randle (add)	1889-1892	57,366

Walnut Hill Coal Company (add)	Avery (add)	1892-1905	827,452

Southern Coal and Mining Company (add)	Avery, Southern No. 1 (add)	1905-1916 Idle 1909, 1914-1916	331,625

Southern Coal, Coke and Mining Company (add)	Southern No. 1 (add)	1916-1936 Idle from the last half of 1925 to the last half of 1929	1,249,000

Total Production: 2,465,443

Production Notes

Coal Report production (if available)

Sources of Data

Source Map

Map Date

Original Scale

Digitized Scale

Map Type

Microfilm, document 350963

4-2-1936

1:2400

1:5462

Final

Annotated Bibliography (Data source - brief description of information)

Coal Reports - Production, ownership, years of operation.

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

Microfilm map, document 350963, reel 03134, frame 7 - Shaft locations, mine outline, method.

Mine notes (St. Clair County) - Thickness, depth, seam, mine type, shaft location, geologic problems.