Mine Index 0048 Saline Valley Coal Company, Saline Valley No. 1 Mine

Mine Index Number: 0048

Company Name:	Saline Valley Coal Company
Mine Name:	Saline Valley No. 1 Mine
Start Date:	1903	End Date:	1928
Type of Mine:	Underground
Total acres shown:	151
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

Saline

9S 5E

36

NW SE SW

Slope

Saline

9S 5E

35

SW SE SEThese entrances to the mine were from the later operations. No air shaft for the earlier operations was designated on the source maps. The southernmost extension of the mine was made in 1929, when Bluebird No. 1 Mine (mine index 610) worked underground before changing over to surface-mining the coal between the outcrop and the underground mine.

Escapement shaft

Saline

10S 5E

2

NE NE NEThese entrances to the mine were from the later operations. No air shaft for the earlier operations was designated on the source maps. The southernmost extension of the mine was made in 1929, when Bluebird No. 1 Mine (mine index 610) worked underground before changing over to surface-mining the coal between the outcrop and the underground mine.

Geology

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

Springfield

83 (70-125)

5.0

7.5

6.25

MRP

Geological Problems Reported

Small faults with 2-foot offsets were seen in the mine. The coal contained some pyrite. Mining was halted in the southwest due to dirty gray shale lenses in the coal.

Production

Company

Mine Name

Date

Production (tons)

Morris Coal Company (add)	Green Gravel (add)	1903-1905Idle 1905	9,410

O’Gara Coal Company (add)	O’Gara No. 7 (add)	1905-1914 Idle 1914-1921	821,956

Heato Coal Company (add)	Heato (add)	1921-1923	29,976

Saline Valley Coal Company (add)	Saline Valley No. 1 (add)	1923-1928	92,371

Total Production: 953,713

Production Notes

Coal Report production (if available)

Sources of Data

Source Map

Map Date

Original Scale

Digitized Scale

Map Type

Microfilm, document 352769

7-1-1931

1:2400

1:4468

Secondary

WPA, T9S-R5E

circa 1934

1:12000

1:53900

Secondary

Annotated Bibliography (Data source - brief description of information)

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

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 352769, reel 03140, frame 291, map of Blue Bird Mine (mine index 610) - Slope and shaft locations, mine outline, mining method.

WPA map, T9S-R5E - Shaft location.