Mine Index 2762 Consolidated Coal Company of St. Louis, Confidence Mine

Mine Index Number: 2762

Company Name:	Consolidated Coal Company of St. Louis
Mine Name:	Confidence Mine
Start Date:	1870	End Date:	1887
Type of Mine:	Underground
Total acres shown:	92
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

Madison

3N 8W

26

NW SE NE

Air shaft

Madison

3N 8W

26

NW SE NE

Geology

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

Herrin

216-226

6.0-7.5

RPB

Production

Company

Mine Name

Date

Production (tons)

Wilborn Mining Company (add)	Wilborn (add)	1870-1874	unknown Production prior to 1878 unknown. According to the History of Madison County (published by W. R. Brink & Co., Edwardsville, Illinois, 1882), the shaft was sunk in the spring of 1870 by Seybt, Bandelier & Company, and leased to Bartlett Coal & Mining Company in the fall of that year.

Bartlett Coal and Mining Company (add)	Wilborn (add)	1874-1878	unknown Production prior to 1878 unknown. According to the History of Madison County (published by W. R. Brink & Co., Edwardsville, Illinois, 1882), the shaft was sunk in the spring of 1870 by Seybt, Bandelier & Company, and leased to Bartlett Coal & Mining Company in the fall of that year.

Seibt and Bandileer (add)	Confidence (add)	1878-1881	37,906 Production July 1879 to June 1881 unknown

Confidence Coal and Mining Company (add)	Confidence (add)	1881-1886	240,512

Consolidated Coal Company of St. Louis (add)	Confidence (add)	1886-1887	9,018

Total Production: 287,436

Production Notes

Coal Report production (if available)

Sources of Data

Source Map

Map Date

Original Scale

Digitized Scale

Map Type

Microfilm, document 352374

5-20-1950

1:2400

1:4634

Secondary source

State archive, IL_969

8-1872

1:1200

1:1200

Not final

Annotated Bibliography (Data source - brief description of information)

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

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

Microfilm map, document 352374, reel 03138, frames 497-500 - Shaft locations, mine outline, mining method.

State archive, IL_969 - Shaft locations, mine outline (portion of eastern boundary).