Mine Index 0103 Rutland Second Vein Company, Rutland Mine

Mine Index Number: 0103

Company Name:	Rutland Second Vein Company
Mine Name:	Rutland Mine
Start Date:	1881	End Date:	1936
Type of Mine:	Underground
Total acres shown:	343
Production Indicated Acres:	25 The area mined in the Danville Coal is unknown. No map was found of workings in the Danville Coal, and the years of operation in that seam are uncertain. The Coal Reports indicate the earliest mining took place in the Danville Coal (1882 to 1885), and the mining from 1933 to 1936 was in the upper seam.	General Area of mining acres shown:

Shaft, Slope, Drift or Tipple Location(s)

Type	County	Township-Range	Section	Part Section

Main shaft The main hoist shaft was sunk in 1894 and the original hoist shaft was then used for ventilation and escapement.

La Salle

29N 2E

18

SW SE NW

Escape / air shaft The main hoist shaft was sunk in 1894 and the original hoist shaft was then used for ventilation and escapement. The air shaft was also used to hoist coal from the Danville Coal from 1933 to 1936.

La Salle

29N 2E

18

SE NW NW

Geology

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

Danville

285-295

3.5-4.5

RP

Colchester

517

2.0

4.5

3.0

LW (old longwall)

Geological Problems Reported

The Colchester Coal had some slips that were considerable in local spots. The seam had many cracks and fractures, some filled with calcite or gypsum and some pyrite.

Production

Company

Mine Name

Date

Production (tons)

William Magher (add)	Magher (add)	1881-1884 Idle 1884	3,200

Emerson Hakes (add)	Hakes (add)	1884-1893 Idle 1886-1888	112,235

Northern Illinois Coal Corporation (add)	Northern (add)	1893-1894	21,525

Emerson Hakes (add)	Hakes (add)	1894-1901	533,394

Mrs. Emerson Hakes (add)	Hakes (add)	1901-1910	596,436

Rutland Coal Company (add)	Rutland (add)	1910-1915	158,570

Rutland Coal Company (add)	Rutland (add)	1915-1915	2,981 Production after map date, some in the Danville Coal

Hakes-Lyon Coal Company (add)	Rutland No. 2 (add)	1915-1916	25,856 Production after map date, some in the Danville Coal

Rutland Coal Company (add)	Rutland No. 2 (add)	1916-1917	11,125 Production after map date, some in the Danville Coal

U. S. Coal and Coke Company (add)	Rutland No. 2 (add)	1917-1924 Idle 1922-1924	65,674 Production after map date, some in the Danville Coal

Rutland Coal Company (add)	Rutland No. 2 (add)	1924-1935 Idle 1927-1933	23,307 Production after map date, some in the Danville Coal

Rutland Mining Company (add)	Rutland No. 1 (add)	1935-1935	280 Production after map date, some in the Danville Coal

Rutland Second Vein Company (add)	Rutland (add)	1936-1936	90 Production after map date, some in the Danville Coal

Total Production: 1,551,692

Production Notes

Coal Report production (if available)

Sources of Data

Source Map

Map Date

Original Scale

Digitized Scale

Map Type

Microfilm, document 352415

3-1915

1:1200

1:2566

Not final

Annotated Bibliography (Data source - brief description of information)

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

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

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

Microfilm map, document 352415, reel 03139, frame 86 - Shaft locations, mine outline, mining method.