Mine Index Number: 0238
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La Salle County Carbon Coal Company
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| Mine Name:
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Rockwell Mine
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| Start Date:
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1865
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End Date:
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1912
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| Type of Mine:
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Underground
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| Total acres shown:
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1,274 The boundary between the Rockwell Mine, La Salle Mine (mine index 3), and Kentucky Mine (mine index 5660) could not be distinguished. The area shown on the accompanying map includes all three mines.
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General Area of mining acres shown:
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Shaft, Slope, Drift or Tipple Location(s)
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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 shaft An escape road was shown on the source map, connecting to the Jones Mine (mine index 273). Text on the source map also indicates the Rockwell Shaft may have been kept open for escape purposes for the La Salle Mine (mine index 3) as well.
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La Salle
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33N 1E
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14
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SE NW SE
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Geology
| Colchester
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540-544
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3.0
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5.0
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3.42
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LW (old longwall)
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Geological Problems Reported
The soapstone roof was hard to hold, because it had many slips and breaks. There were some rolls. Pyrite was present in streaks and balls. The mine was very wet.
Production
| Company
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Mine Name
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Date
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Production (tons)
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| Northern Illinois Coal and Iron Company
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Carbon
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1865-1880 Production before July 1881 is unknown. The Carbon Shaft is shown on the 1876 atlas and listed in the 1879 La Salle City Directory. The precise date of the name and ownership change is uncertain, but is known to be sometime between the 1879 city directory and the 1882 Coal Report. According to W. T. Bedford in the Twentieth Anniversary Souvenir Edition; The La Salle Tribune 1891-1911, the Rockwell Shaft and the Kentucky Shaft (mine index 5660) were merged in 1867.
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unknown Production before July 1881 is unknown. The Carbon Shaft is shown on the 1876 atlas and listed in the 1879 La Salle City Directory. The precise date of the name and ownership change is uncertain, but is known to be sometime between the 1879 city directory and the 1882 Coal Report. According to W. T. Bedford in the Twentieth Anniversary Souvenir Edition; The La Salle Tribune 1891-1911, the Rockwell Shaft and the Kentucky Shaft (mine index 5660) were merged in 1867.
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| La Salle County Carbon Coal Company
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La Salle County No. 2
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1880-1886 Production before July 1881 is unknown. The Carbon Shaft is shown on the 1876 atlas and listed in the 1879 La Salle City Directory. The precise date of the name and ownership change is uncertain, but is known to be sometime between the 1879 city directory and the 1882 Coal Report. According to W. T. Bedford in the Twentieth Anniversary Souvenir Edition; The La Salle Tribune 1891-1911, the Rockwell Shaft and the Kentucky Shaft (mine index 5660) were merged in 1867.
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204,848 Production before July 1881 is unknown. The Carbon Shaft is shown on the 1876 atlas and listed in the 1879 La Salle City Directory. The precise date of the name and ownership change is uncertain, but is known to be sometime between the 1879 city directory and the 1882 Coal Report. According to W. T. Bedford in the Twentieth Anniversary Souvenir Edition; The La Salle Tribune 1891-1911, the Rockwell Shaft and the Kentucky Shaft (mine index 5660) were merged in 1867.
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| Total Production: 2,268,545
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Production Notes
Coal Report production (if available)
Sources of Data
| Microfilm, document 352407
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1-3-1930
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1:2400
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1:4634
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Final
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Annotated Bibliography (Data source - brief description of information)
| Coal Reports - Production, ownership, years of operation, depth.
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| Directory of Illinois Coal Mines (La Salle County) - Mine names, mine index, ownership, years of operation.
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| Mine notes (La Salle County) - Mine type, shaft location, seam, thickness, geologic problems.
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| Bedford, Willam T., 1911, Twentieth Anniversary Souvenir Edition; The La Salle Tribune 1891-1911, printed & published at LaSalle, Illinois , re-published by LaSalle County Genealogy Guild, 1996, 206p. - Years of operation.
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| Microfilm map, document 352407, reel 03139, frames 66-69 - Shaft location, mine outline, mining method.
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Mine Notes
Mine Images
Photographs
