Mine Index 0119 Lincoln Coal Corporation, Empire Mine

Mine Index Number: 0119

Company Name:	Lincoln Coal Corporation
Mine Name:	Empire Mine
Start Date:	1882	End Date:	February 1928
Type of Mine:	Underground
Total acres shown:	934
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

Sangamon

16N 5W

14

SW SW SW

Air shaft

Sangamon

16N 5W

10

SE SW SE

Geology

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

Springfield

230

5.75

6.25

6.0

MRP

Geological Problems Reported

Hard, dark gray floor clay heaved when wet where the rooms were too wide.

Production

Company

Mine Name

Date

Production (tons)

Dickerson Coal Company (add)	Empire, No. 8 (add)	1882-1914	339,133 Exact dates of operation are not known. Production was not reported for the period from 1882 to 1910. Based on the area mined, production not recorded may have been about two million tons.

Montour Coal Company (add)	Empire, No. 400 (add)	1914-1919	951,826

Pittsburg Coal Company (add)	Pittsburg No. 400 (add)	1919-1921	390,163

Illinois Coal and Coke Corporation (add)	Empire, No. 1 (add)	1921-1928	1,306,523

Lincoln Coal Corporation (add)	Empire, No. 1 (add)	1928-1933	54,109 Idle 1929 to 1933; included in list of idle mines under the name of Lincoln Coal Company.

Panther Creek Mines, Inc. (add)	Panther Creek No. 6 (add)	unknown	0 Included on a map of Panther Creek properties dated 2-5-1931, and labeled “No. 6, abandoned”. No production listed under this name.

Total Production: 3,041,754

Production Notes

Coal Report production (if available)

Sources of Data

Source Map

Map Date

Original Scale

Digitized Scale

Map Type

Microfilm, document 351195

3-31-1928

unknown

1:4000

Not final Maps of the south part of the mine are not very detailed. Rooms are not shown and the entries are open to the south. The Illinois State Fairgrounds may have been undermined.

Microfilm, document 351208

4-15-1952

1:2400

1:5280

Final

WPA

1938-1940

1:12000

1:29333

Secondary source

Annotated Bibliography (Data source - brief description of information)

Coal Reports - Production, ownership, years of operation.

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

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

Microfilm map, document 351208, reel 03134, frame 394 (Panther Creek No. 5) - Shaft location, mine outline (southern).

Microfilm map, document 351195, reel 03134, frames 358-359 - Air shaft location, mine outline (northern), mining method.

WPA map - Mine outline (southern).