Mine Index 4477 Templeton and Treyning, Templeton Mine

Mine Index Number: 4477

Company Name:	Templeton and Treyning
Mine Name:	Templeton Mine
Start Date:	1916	End Date:	1918
Type of Mine:	Underground
Total acres shown:	None
Production Indicated Acres:	3	General Area of mining acres shown:

Shaft, Slope, Drift or Tipple Location(s)

Type	County	Township-Range	Section	Part Section

Slope or drift

Williamson

10S 2E

23

SE SE NE

Geology

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

Tarter The coal correlates to the Tarter Coal in western Illinois, and is approximately equivalent to the Lower Block Coal in Indiana and Coal 4a in western Kentucky.

22

3.5-4.0 (est.)

RP

Geological Problems Reported

The mine was filled with water when the location was noted in 1932.

Production

Company

Mine Name

Date

Production (tons)

W. H. John (add)	John (add)	1916-1917	10,000

Templeton and Treyning Treyning may be a typographic error for Tregoning (add)	Templeton (add)	1917-1918	725

Total Production: 10,725

Production Notes

Coal Report production (if available)

Sources of Data

Source Map

Map Date

Original Scale

Digitized Scale

Map Type

ISGS field notes (Cady and Benson)

7-10-1932

(text only)

1:24000 The mine location was plotted on a 1:24,000 USGS topographic map from the mine location description and digitized.

Secondary source

Coal Section files, 1-17-13b

Undated

1:31250

1:31250

Secondary source

Annotated Bibliography (Data source - brief description of information)

Coal Reports - Production, ownership, years of operation.

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

ISGS field notes (Williamson County) - Mine type, slope or drift location, depth, thickness.

Russ Jacobson (ISGS), personal communication - Seam.

W.J. Nelson (ISGS), Catalog of Coal Mines in Williamson County, 2003 - Seam.

Coal Section files, 1-17-13b - Mine location.