Mine Index 4580 Beecher-Williams Coal Company, Beecher-Williams No. 4 Mine

Mine Index Number: 4580

Company Name:	Beecher-Williams Coal Company
Mine Name:	Beecher-Williams No. 4 Mine
Start Date:	1956	End Date:	June 1957
Type of Mine:	Surface
Total acres shown:	Less than 1 acre
Acres after map date:	1	General Area of mining acres shown:

Shaft, Slope, Drift or Tipple Location(s)

Type	County	Township-Range	Section	Part Section

Pit

Gallatin

10S 8E

17

SW NE

Geology

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

Springfield

25

4.5

Surface

Production

Company

Mine Name

Date

Production (tons)

Beecher-Williams Coal Company (add)	Beecher-Williams No. 4 (add)	1956-1957	17,766
Total Production: 17,766

Production Notes

Coal Report production (if available)

Sources of Data

Source Map

Map Date

Original Scale

Digitized Scale

Map Type

USGS topographic map

PR 1990

1:24000

1:24000

Secondary source

Annotated Bibliography (Data source - brief description of information)

Coal Reports - Production, ownership, years of operation.

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

Mine notes (Gallatin County) - Mine type, mine location, seam, depth, thickness.

USGS topographic map, Equality Quadrangle, 1959, photorevised 1990 - Mine outline.