Mine Index 0192 Hardscrabble Coal Company, Hardscrabble Mine

Mine Index Number: 0192

Company Name:	Hardscrabble Coal Company
Mine Name:	Hardscrabble Mine
Start Date:	1903	End Date:	1937
Type of Mine:	Underground
Total acres shown:	168
Acres after map date:	8	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

33

SW NE SW

Air shaft

Madison

3N 8W

33

NW SE SW

Geology

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

Herrin

195

3.0

7.0

6.5

RPB

Production

Company

Mine Name

Date

Production (tons)

Abbey Coal Corporation (add)	Abbey No. 1 (add)	1903-1932 Idle 1931-1932	1,236,928

Hardscrabble Coal Company (add)	Hardscrabble (add)	1933-1936	86,033

Hardscrabble Coal Company (add)	Hardscrabble (add)	1936-1937	46,912 Production after map date

Total Production: 1,369,873

Production Notes

Coal Report production (if available)

Sources of Data

Source Map

Map Date

Original Scale

Digitized Scale

Map Type

Microfilm, document 352364

1-1936

1:1200

1:1200

Incomplete The mine outline is not final as well as incomplete. A general area of mining has been added to the northern boundary of the mine. A paper version of this source map shows handwritten notes and additional rooms mined out in this area -- personal communication with Robert Gibson (of the Abandoned Mined Lands Reclamation Division of the Department of Natural Resources).

State archive, IL_1090_03

6-1926

1:1200

1:1200

Not final

Annotated Bibliography (Data source - brief description of information)

Coal Reports - Production, ownership, years of operation.

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

Mine notes (Madison County) - Mine type, shaft locations, seam, depth, thickness.

Microfilm map, document 352364, reel 03138, frame 484 - Shaft locations, mine outline (northern and eastern).

State archive, IL_1090_03 - Mine outline (southern and western).