Mine Index 0037 Peabody Coal Company, Peabody No. 59 Mine

Mine Index Number: 0037

Company Name:	Peabody Coal Company
Mine Name:	Peabody No. 59 Mine
Start Date:	1884	End Date:	September 1951
Type of Mine:	Underground
Total acres shown:	4,121
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

16N 5W

13

2000 FSL, 115 FWL

Air shaft

Sangamon

16N 5W

13

2240 FSL, 1040 FWL

Air shaft

Sangamon

16N 4W

16

1220 FSL, 440 FWL

Air shaft

Sangamon

16N 4W

18

SE NW SE

Geology

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

Springfield

235

6.0

BRP

Geological Problems Reported

The roof was a very black, sheety shale that had many concretions of all sizes, up to several feet in diameter. The concretions frequently extended down into the coal. An entry in the mine notes indicate that pillars were robbed or made as small as possible so that the roof often caved after the rooms were worked out. The coal was very clean but had some clay veins and horsebacks and a very few plates and horizontal bands of pyrite. Several of the horsebacks cut entirely through the coal and ranged from 3 to 15 feet wide. The floor was a dark gray fire clay that heaved slightly.

Production

Company

Mine Name

Date

Production (tons)

Beard and Goodwin (add)	Beard and Goodwin (add)	1884-1885	not reported

Springfield Coal and Tile Company (add)	Springfield No. 1 (add)	1885-1899	938,786

Jones and Adams Coal Company (add)	Springfield Colliery (add)	1899-1904	995,983

Illinois Collieries Company (add)	Illinois Collieries No. 8 (add)	1904-1909	804,243

Springfield Colliery Company (add)	Jones and Adams (add)	1905-1908 Two shafts worked the same reserves concurrently. The older shaft location may not be included on the accompanying map.	442,643

Jones and Adams Coal Company (add)	Peerless No. 1 (add)	1908-1918	4,175,294

Peerless Coal Company (add)	Peerless (add)	1918-1929 Idle 1925-1929	2,099,711

Peabody Coal Company (add)	Peabody No. 59 (add)	1930-1951	11,223,030

Total Production: 20,679,690

Production Notes

Coal Report production (if available)

Sources of Data

Source Map

Map Date

Original Scale

Digitized Scale

Map Type

Microfilm, document 351209

9-21-1951

1:4800

1:9600

Final

State archive, IL_451

9-21-1951

1:2400

1:2400

Final

Annotated Bibliography (Data source - brief description of information)

Coal Reports - Production, ownership, years of operation.

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

ENR Document 85/01 - Mining method.

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

Microfilm map, document 351209, reel 03134, frames 395-399 - Shaft locations, mine outline.

State achive, IL_451, map of Peabody No. 57 mine (mine index 37), courtesy of Robert Gibson, IDNR - Air shaft (central).