Mine Index 2773 P. Wonderly Coal Company, Wonderly Mine


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	Unlocated Mines In:	Madison unlocated
	County:	Madison
	Quadrangle:	Edwardsville
	County Coal Data:	Madison
	Shown On Map:	Yes
	Unlocated:	No
	MSHA ID:

Mine Index Number: 2773



Company Name:	P. Wonderly Coal Company
Mine Name:	Wonderly Mine
Start Date:	1879	End Date:	October 1897
Type of Mine:	Underground
Total acres shown:	None
Production Indicated Acres:	65	General Area of mining acres shown:

Shaft, Slope, Drift or Tipple Location(s)

Type	County	Township-Range	Section	Part Section

Shaft Type	County	Township-Range	Section	Part Section
Main shaft	Madison	4N 8W	10	NE NW NE^[1]

Shaft Type	County	Township-Range	Section	Part Section
Escape (old hoist) shaft	Madison	4N 8W	10	SE SE NE^[2]

Geology

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

Seam	Depth (ft)	Thickness Min	Thickness max	Thickness Ave.	Mining Method
Herrin	148 (65 - 160)			5.0-6.5	RP

Geological Problems Reported

Production

Company	Mine Name	Date	Production (tons)

Company	Mine Name	Date	Production (tons)
Frank Shrameck (add)	Wabash (add)	1879-1886	114,058 ^[3]

Company	Mine Name	Date	Production (tons)
P. Wonderly Coal Company (add)	Wonderly (add)	1886-1897 ^[4]	206,088

Company	Mine Name	Date	Production (tons)

Total Production: 320,146

Production Notes

Coal Report production (if available)

Sources of Data

Source Map	Map Date	Original Scale	Digitized Scale	Map Type

Source Map	Map Date	Original Scale	Digitized Scale	Map Type
Robert Gibson, IDNR	4-2003	1:1	1:24000 ^[5]	Secondary source

Annotated Bibliography (Data source - brief description of information)

Bibliography
Coal Reports - Production, ownership, years of operation, depth, thickness, mining method.

Bibliography
Mine notes (Madison County) - Mine type, seam, depth, thickness, abandonment date.

Bibliography
Edwardsville Intelligencer, provided by Robert Gibson (IDNR) - Mine ownership, abandonment date, depth.

Bibliography
History of Madison County, Illinois; Published by W. R. Brink & Co., Edwardsville, Illinois, 1882 - Mine location, opening year, ownership.

Bibliography
Atlas of Madison County, 1892 - Shaft locations.

Bibliography
Robert Gibson (IDNR), personal communication 4-24-2003 - Shaft locations.

Mine Notes

M2773 minenotes.pdf

Mine Images

Atlas:
Map Date: 1892
Coal Co.: P. Wonderly Coal Company
Mine Name: Wonderly Mine
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Photographs

Additional Notes

Notes

↑ No map has been found of the workings for this mine. The locations are from Robert Gibson of Abandoned Mine Lands, Office of Mines & Minerals (AML-OMM), Department of Natural Resources, with global positioning system apparatus.
↑ No map has been found of the workings for this mine. The locations are from Robert Gibson of Abandoned Mine Lands, Office of Mines & Minerals (AML-OMM), Department of Natural Resources, with global positioning system apparatus.
↑ The new hoist shaft, constructed in 1884-1885, was equipped with engines and boiler from the Gaffney mine, whose location and dates of operation are unknown. Production from July 1879 to June 1882 unknown.
↑ The mine was abandoned due to flooding, reported in the Edwardsville Intelligencer, 10-26-1897, 10-29-1897, and 11-23-1897. Apparently the old Shrameck workings were filled with water and when a hole was drilled for powder, the drilling broke into the old works. After a month of pumping, the attempt to restore the Wonderly mine to production was deemed ineffective, and the mine abandoned. Schrameck’s main shaft used for the air shaft of the Wonderly mine. This strongly implies that portions of the older mine were part of the Wonderly mine, but a plat of the older workings were not available to the mine in 1897, which caused the water break-through. The newspaper articles stated that the last owner of the mine was G. H. Donnewald, although the company name remained P. Wonderly Coal Company.
↑ UTM GPS coordinates converted to Lambert Conformable Conic projection for plotting onto 1:24,000 USGS topographic map.

Verified Shaft Locations

	Latitude	Longitude
Shaft 1	38.814149	-89.96742147249545
Shaft 2	38.814384	-89.97165724435118

[1] No map has been found of the workings for this mine. The locations are from Robert Gibson of Abandoned Mine Lands, Office of Mines & Minerals (AML-OMM), Department of Natural Resources, with global positioning system apparatus.

[2] No map has been found of the workings for this mine. The locations are from Robert Gibson of Abandoned Mine Lands, Office of Mines & Minerals (AML-OMM), Department of Natural Resources, with global positioning system apparatus.

[3] The new hoist shaft, constructed in 1884-1885, was equipped with engines and boiler from the Gaffney mine, whose location and dates of operation are unknown. Production from July 1879 to June 1882 unknown.

[4] The mine was abandoned due to flooding, reported in the Edwardsville Intelligencer, 10-26-1897, 10-29-1897, and 11-23-1897. Apparently the old Shrameck workings were filled with water and when a hole was drilled for powder, the drilling broke into the old works. After a month of pumping, the attempt to restore the Wonderly mine to production was deemed ineffective, and the mine abandoned. Schrameck’s main shaft used for the air shaft of the Wonderly mine. This strongly implies that portions of the older mine were part of the Wonderly mine, but a plat of the older workings were not available to the mine in 1897, which caused the water break-through. The newspaper articles stated that the last owner of the mine was G. H. Donnewald, although the company name remained P. Wonderly Coal Company.

[5] UTM GPS coordinates converted to Lambert Conformable Conic projection for plotting onto 1:24,000 USGS topographic map.

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