Mine Index 3357 Barclay Coal Mining Company, Barclay Mine

Mine Index Number: 3357

Company Name:	Barclay Coal Mining Company
Mine Name:	Barclay Mine
Start Date:	1870	End Date:	March 1916
Type of Mine:	Underground
Total acres shown:	573
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

Sangamon

17N 4W

35

NW SE SE

Air shaft

Sangamon

17N 4W

35

SE SE SE

Geology

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

Springfield

256

6.0

MRP

Production

Company	Mine Name	Date	Production (tons)

Barclay Coal Mining Company (add)	Barclay (add)	ca.1870-1915 The production and years of operation before 1881 are not known. The 1882 Coal Report indicated 75 acres were mined. The 1873 publication by A. H. Worthen et al. stated that the shaft had been sunk recently.	2,493,490

Williamson and Denney (add)	Barclay (add)	1916-1916	3,000

Total Production: 2,496,490

Production Notes

Coal Report production (if available)

Sources of Data

Source Map

Map Date

Original Scale

Digitized Scale

Map Type

Microfilm, document 351228

5-20-1932

1:2400

1:5297

Secondary source

Annotated Bibliography (Data source - brief description of information)

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

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

Mine notes (Sangamon County) - Mine type, shaft location, seam, depth, thickness, ownership.

Microfilm map, document 351228, reel 03134, frames 446-448, map of Peabody No. 52 Mine (mine index 36) - Shaft locations, mine outline.

Worthen et al., 1873 - Years of operation.