Mine Index Number: 0273
| Company Name:
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La Salle County Carbon Coal Company
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| Mine Name:
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Jones Mine or La Salle County No. 1 Mine
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| Start Date:
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1865
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End Date:
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January 1930
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| Type of Mine:
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Underground
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| Total acres shown:
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1,241
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| Acres after map date:
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General Area of mining acres shown:
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Shaft, Slope, Drift or Tipple Location(s)
| Type
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County
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Township-Range
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Section
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Part Section
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| No. 1 shaft
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La Salle
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33N 1E
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23
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SW SE SE
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| No. 2 shaft
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La Salle
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33N 1E
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23
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SW SE SW
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Geology
| Colchester
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400-440
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3.0
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3.5
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3.33
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LW (old longwall)
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Geological Problems Reported
At least one fault was noted, with the upthrown side to the west. Most of the roof was black shale. Although this shale was hard, it came down readily, partially because slips were common. The coal was the thinnest where the roof was black shale. Numerous concretions up to 6 inches in diameter were present in the black shale roof. The roof was gray shale over sags in the seam and at the top of the swales. Occasional rolls were present, cutting out the coal to within 12 inches of the floor. Pyrite was rather abundant in the coal, but the distribution was very irregular. There were two horizons where pyrite and dull coal lamina thickened to a lens of hard clay and pyrite that was only separated from the coal with difficulty. The floor was composed of a sandy, gritty, hard fire clay. This fire clay broke more readily in a vertical plane than a horizontal plane so that vertical plates of clay 8 inches high were readily removed, making undercutting less difficult than the clay hardness implicated.
Production
| Company
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Mine Name
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Date
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Production (tons)
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| Total Production: 6,493,696
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Production Notes
Coal Report production (if available)
Sources of Data
| Microfilm, document 352410
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1-31-1930
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1:2400
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1:4468
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Final
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Annotated Bibliography (Data source - brief description of information)
| Coal Reports - Production, ownership, years of operation, depth.
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| Directory of Illinois Coal Mines (La Salle County) - Mine names, mine index, ownership, years of operation.
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| Mine notes (La Salle County) - Mine type, shaft location, seam, thickness, mining method, geologic problems.
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| Bedford, Willam T., 1911, Twentieth Anniversary Souvenir Edition; The La Salle Tribune 1891-1911, printed & published at LaSalle, Illinois , re-published by LaSalle County Genealogy Guild, 1996, 206p. - Years of operation.
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| Microfilm map, document 352410, reel 03139, frames 74-77 - Shaft locations, mine outline, mining method.
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Mine Notes
Mine Images
Photographs
Notes
- ↑ The 1883 Coal Report indicated 40 acres had been mined. Production, ownership and years of operation before July 1881 are unknown.
