Mine Index 0033 Brewerton Coal Company, Brewerton No. 2 Mine

Mine Index Number: 0033

Company Name:	Brewerton Coal Company
Mine Name:	Brewerton No. 2 Mine
Start Date:	1903	End Date:	February 1933
Type of Mine:	Underground
Total acres shown:	1,559
Acres after map date:	27	General Area of mining acres shown:

Shaft, Slope, Drift or Tipple Location(s)

Type	County	Township-Range	Section	Part Section

Main shaft

Logan

20N 2W

30

NE SE NE

Air shaft

Logan

20N 2W

30

SE SE NE

Geology

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

Springfield

280

4.0

6.0

5.1

RPB

Geological Problems Reported

A 12 to 14 foot thick bed of sand was located 50 feet below the surface. This sand contained a lot of water. Clay dikes or ‘horsebacks’ were common in this mine. The microfilm source map indicated areas of squeeze in the southeastern part of the mine.

Production

Company

Mine Name

Date

Production (tons)

Latham Coal and Mining Company (add)	North (add)	1902-1919	3,362,020

Latham-Lincoln Mining Company (add)	Latham-Lincoln (add)	1919-1921	451,298

Sangamon County Mining Company (add)	Sangamon (add)	1921-1922	187,440

Brewerton Coal Company (add)	Brewerton No. 2 (add)	1922-1925	628,643

Brewerton Coal Company (add)	Brewerton No. 92 (add)	1926-1931	883,442

Brewerton Coal Company (add)	Brewerton No. 92 (add)	1931-1933	140,728

Total Production: 5,653,571

Production Notes

Coal Report production (if available)

Sources of Data

Source Map

Map Date

Original Scale

Digitized Scale

Map Type

Microfilm, document 352524

11-1931

1:2400

1:3972

Not final

Microfilm, document 352538

10-03-1922

1:2400

1:3972

Not final

Annotated Bibliography (Data source - brief description of information)

Coal Reports - Production, ownership, years of operation.

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

Mine notes (Logan County) - Mine type, shaft location, seam, depth, thickness, geologic problems.

Microfilm map, document 352524, reel 03139, frames 244-246 - Shaft locations, mine outline (north, east, west).

ISGS map library, 4103.L6 i5.1-3, original map for Federal Land Bank Report - Mine outline (north).