Mine Index 0244 Coal Hollow Coal Company, Coal Hollow Mine

Mine Index Number: 0244

Company Name:	Coal Hollow Coal Company
Mine Name:	Coal Hollow Mine
Start Date:	1870	End Date:	1928
Type of Mine:	Underground
Total acres shown:	12
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

Bureau

16N 10E

17

NE SE SE

Geology

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

Herrin

180

2.0

5.0

4.5

RP

Geological Problems Reported

The roof consisted of gray shale, black shale and some white top. Clay slips were common. The blue band averaged 3 inches thick at this mine, and consisted of gray to blue shale.

Production

Company

Mine Name

Date

Production (tons)

Bierman (add)	Bierman (add)	1870-1881 Years of operation of Bierman’s shaft uncertain; operating before the 1873 Geology and Paleontology of Illinois, Vol V (commonly known as the Worthen Reports). Production and the years of operation before 1881 are not known. The 1882 and 1883 Coal Reports indicated between 3 and 5 acres were mined.	none reported

Joseph Vane (add)	Vane (add)	1881-1883 Production and the years of operation before 1881 are not known. The 1882 and 1883 Coal Reports indicated between 3 and 5 acres were mined.	2,361

George Heathcock (add)	Heathcock (add)	1883-1895	31,142

Bloom and Cox (add)	Heathcock (add)	1895-1897	5,607

George Heathcock (add)	Heathcock (add)	1897-1905	15,352

John Griffith and Son (add)	Heathcock (add)	1905-1906	1,406

Earl Saunders (add)	Heathcock (add)	1906-1907	780

Eugene Martin (add)	Heathcock (add)	1907-1908	1,310

John Griffith (add)	Heathcock (add)	1908-1910	2,648

Coal Hollow Coal Company (add)	Coal Hollow (add)	1910-1928 Idle or abandoned 1910-1926. Coal Hollow Coal Company reopened the mine in 1926 and pulled pillars.	6,462

Total Production: 67,068

Production Notes

Coal Report production (if available)

Sources of Data

Source Map

Map Date

Original Scale

Digitized Scale

Map Type

Federal Land Bank Report

6-1935

1:126720

1:126720

Secondary source

Annotated Bibliography (Data source - brief description of information)

Coal Reports - Production, ownership, years of operation.

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

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

Federal Land Bank Report (Perry County) - Shaft location, mine outline, mining method.

Worthen, A. H. & James Shaw, 1873, Geology and Paleontology, Geological Survey of Illinois, published by the authority of the Legislature of Illinois - Years of operation.