Mine Index 0046 Southern Counties Coal Company, Southern Counties No. 20 Mine

Mine Index Number: 0046

Company Name:	Southern Counties Coal Company
Mine Name:	Southern Counties No. 20 Mine
Start Date:	1907	End Date:	February 1924
Type of Mine:	Underground
Total acres shown:	780
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 (9x14)

Saline

8S 7E

15

NE NW SW

Air shaft (9x13)

Saline

8S 7E

15

NE NW SW

Geology

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

Springfield

445 (400-465)

4.0

5.33

4.67 (4.0-5.6)

MRP

Geological Problems Reported

A gas explosion in 1913 killed 4 men. A dike was found, but its location was not shown on the source map. Faults were shown in the SE 9-T8S-R7E, 16-T8S-R7E, and SW 15-T8S-R7E. These faults trended north-northwest to south-southeast. The roof was weak near the shaft. The roof consisted of 2 feet of hard black shale, but about 2 inches of “draw slate” came down with the coal. There were some minor slips in the coal. Few impurities were found in the coal, except for some pyrite streaks. The floor was a dark gray shale that did not weather or heave.

Production

Company

Mine Name

Date

Production (tons)

Eldorado Coal and Mining Company (add)	Eldorado No. 1 (add)	1907-1916	1,716,794

Dering Coal Company (add)	Dering No. 3 (add)	1916-1920	1,247,740

Southern Counties Coal Company (add)	Southern Counties No. 20 (add)	1920-1924	1,052,714

Peabody Coal Company (add)	Peabody No. 20 (add)	1927-1927	none

Total Production: 4,017,248

Production Notes

Coal Report production (if available)

Sources of Data

Source Map

Map Date

Original Scale

Digitized Scale

Map Type

Microfilm, document 352830

3-1-1924 The map title block shows the Peabody Coal Company ownership and the date 9-1-1927, but no extension of mining had taken place.

1:2400

1:4634

Final

Annotated Bibliography (Data source - brief description of information)

Coal Reports - Production, ownership, years of operation, depth, thickness.

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

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

Microfilm map, document 352830, reel 03140, frames 396-399 - Shaft locations, mine outline, mining method, geologic problems.