Mine Index Number: 0095
| Company Name:
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Schaffer Brothers
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| Mine Name:
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Schaffer No. 4 Mine
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| Start Date:
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1898
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End Date:
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1928
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| Type of Mine:
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Underground
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| Total acres shown:
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None
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| Production Indicated Acres:
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General Area of mining acres shown:
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23
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Shaft, Slope, Drift or Tipple Location(s)
| Type
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County
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Township-Range
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Section
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Part Section
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| Main slope
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Vermilion
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19N 11W
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7
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NW NW SW
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Geology
| Danville
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20-360
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1.5
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9.0
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5.5-6.0
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RP
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Geological Problems Reported
The roof was generally very good, but when the rolls reduced the coal to less than 5 feet thick, the roof couldn’t be held up. Roof and floor rolls were present in the seam, the floor rolls were more common than those from the roof. The underclay floor contained coal lenses and heaved readily as soon as it got wet. This had only a minor effect on mining.
Production
| Company
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Mine Name
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Date
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Production (tons)
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| William C. Schafer
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Schafer
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1898-1923 Reported closed or abandoned in the 1916 Coal Report; re-opened 1917
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95,484 Production not reported in 1922 for mines producing less than 10,000 tons; production higher than shown
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| Total Production: 112,360
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Production Notes
Coal Report production (if available)
Sources of Data
| ISGS mine notes
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Undated
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(text only)
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1:24000 Point plotted onto 1:24,000 USGS topographic map and digitized.
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Undated
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Annotated Bibliography (Data source - brief description of information)
| Coal Reports - Production, ownership, years of operation, seam, depth.
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| Directory of Illinois Coal Mines (Vermilion County) - Mine names, mine index, ownership, years of operation.
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| Mine notes (Vermilion County) - Mine type, slope location, seam, depth, thickness, geologic problems.
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Mine Notes
Mine Images
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