Mine Index Number: 3788
Company Name:
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Contract Coal Company
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Mine Name:
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Contract Mine No.s 1, 2 and 4
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Start Date:
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1907
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End Date:
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1929
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Type of Mine:
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Underground and Surface
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Total acres shown:
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205 and 188
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Acres after map date:
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General Area of mining acres shown:
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The Western Brick Property mines show a total of 188 acres surface-mined and 205 acres underground-mined on Danville SE and Danville Southwest Quadrangles. These pits are named 3788 on the Danville Southwest Quadrangle and 3710 on the Danville SE Quadrangle. The production of the mines is not recorded so that tonnage can be reliably split between surface and underground mines to correspond to the area shown, thus the area shown is larger than would be expected for the tonnage recorded. Western Brick Company leased their coal lands to other operators, and some of the unlocated mines reported in Vermilion County probably mined Western Brick lands.
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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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Tipple The slope entrances to the underground mines were not shown on the source map. They were presumably on the north side of the mines, near the new and old tipples shown on the map.
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Vermilion
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19N 12W
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12
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SW SE SW
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Geology
Danville
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10-95
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5.5-6.67
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RP and surface
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Geological Problems Reported
Production
Company
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Mine Name
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Date
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Production (tons)
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Production Notes
Coal Report production (if available)
Sources of Data
Microfilm, document 352885
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9-26-1939
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1:9600
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1:8276
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Final
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USGS topographic map
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PR 1978
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1:24000
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1:24000
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Seconday source
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WPA, T19N-R12W
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4-23- 1927 The date of the WPA is circa 1935; the date shown is the survey extent of the mine shown on the WPA photo.
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1:12000
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1:55384
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Secondary source
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Annotated Bibliography (Data source - brief description of information)
Coal Reports - Production, ownership, years of operation.
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Directory of Illinois Coal Mines (Vermilion County) - Mine names, mine index, ownership, years of operation.
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Mine notes (Vermilion County) - Mine type, slope location, seam, depth, thickness.
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Microfilm map, document 352885, reel 03140, frame 516 - Slope location, general mine outline.
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USGS topographic map, 1966, Photorevised 1978 - Mine outline (surface).
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WPA map, T19N-R12W - Mine outline (underground on Danville Southwest Quadrangle).
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Mine Notes
Mine Images
WPA: T19N-R12W
Map Date: 4-23-1927
Coal Co.: Contract Coal Company
Mine Name: Contract No.s 1 and 2 Mines
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Microfilm: 352885
Map Date: 9-26-1939
Coal Co.: Western Brick Company
Mine Name: Western Brick Mine
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Photographs