Mine Index 0070 Madison County Coal and Mining Company, Madison No. 4 Mine or Thermal Mine

Mine Index Number: 0070

Company Name:	Madison County Coal and Mining Company
Mine Name:	Madison No. 4 Mine or Thermal Mine
Start Date:	1920	End Date:	March 1940
Type of Mine:	Underground
Total acres shown:	921
Acres after map date:	91	General Area of mining acres shown:

Shaft, Slope, Drift or Tipple Location(s)

Type	County	Township-Range	Section	Part Section

Main shaft

Madison

4N 8W

23

SW NE NW

Air shaft

Madison

4N 8W

23

NW SE NW

Geology

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

Herrin

204

8.0

5.0-6.0

RPP

Production

Company

Mine Name

Date

Production (tons)

Donk Brothers Coal and Coke Company (add)	Donk No. 4, Thermal (add)	1920-1927	2,723,968

Peabody Coal Company (add)	Peabody No. 17 (add)	1927-1931 Idle 1931	686,643

Madison County Coal and Mining Company (add)	Madison No. 4, Thermal (add)	1931-1938	670,106

Madison County Coal and Mining Company (add)	Madison No. 4, Thermal (add)	1938-1940	409,597 Production after map date

Total Production: 4,490,314

Production Notes

Coal Report production (if available)

Sources of Data

Source Map

Map Date

Original Scale

Digitized Scale

Map Type

Microfilm, document 352376

4-20-1938

1:2400

1:4634

Not final

Annotated Bibliography (Data source - brief description of information)

Coal Reports - Production, ownership, years of operation.

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

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

Microfilm map, document 352376, reel 03138, frames 501-505 - Shaft location, mine outline, mining method.