Mine Index 0266 Gartside Coal Company, Gartside No. 3 Mine

Mine Index Number: 0266

Company Name:	Gartside Coal Company
Mine Name:	Gartside No. 3 Mine
Start Date:	Pre 1876	End Date:	1910
Type of Mine:	Underground
Total acres shown:	243
Acres after map date:		General Area of mining acres shown:

Shaft, Slope, Drift or Tipple Location(s)

Type	County	Township-Range	Section	Part Section

No. 3 shaft

Jackson

8S 2W

33

NE SW SW

No. 1 shaft

Jackson

8S 2W

32

SW SE SE

Geology

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

Murphysboro

141

3.5

4.5

4.0

MRP

Geological Problems Reported

Three horsebacks were reported in the 4th room off the 5th West entry, all trending NE-SW. The parting thickness was highly variable and thickened northward from the shaft. The lower bench was worked when the entire seam was not economical to mine because of the parting thickness.

Production

Company

Mine Name

Date

Production (tons)

Gartside Coal Company (add)	Gartside No. 1 (add)	pre 1876-1901 The opening year and production (before 1881) of the No. 1 Mine not known.	562,980

Gartside Coal Company (add)	Gartside No. 3 (add)	1890-1910	825,022

Total Production: 1,388,002

Production Notes

Coal Report production (if available)

Sources of Data

Source Map

Map Date

Original Scale

Digitized Scale

Map Type

Microfilm, document 352497

3-1923

1:1200

1:2483

Final

ISGS map library, 4103.J31 i5.1-37

ca. 1931

1:31680

1:31680

Secondary source

Annotated Bibliography (Data source - brief description of information)

Coal Reports - Production, ownership, years of operation, seam.

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

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

Microfilm map, document 352497, reel 03139, frames 189-192 - Shaft locations, mine outline (northern), mining method.

ISGS map library, 4103.J31 i5.1-37 sheets 3 and 5, Federal Land Bank Report work maps - Shaft locations, mine outline.

Atlas of Jackson County, 1876, Warner and Beers, Chicago - Shaft location (No. 1 shaft).