Mine Index Number: 0267
| Company Name:
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Chicago Fuel Company
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| Mine Name:
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Ward Mine
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| Start Date:
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1902
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End Date:
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1925
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| Type of Mine:
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Underground
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| Total acres shown:
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119
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| Acres after map date:
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General Area of mining acres shown:
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Shaft, Slope, Drift or Tipple Location(s)
| Type
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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
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Jackson
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8S 1W
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8
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NW NE NE
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| Air shaft
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Jackson
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8S 1W
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8
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NE NW NE
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Geology
| Herrin
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83-87
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7.0
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14.0
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6.0-7.0 Two feet of top coal was left to support the roof, and often 1 ft of bottom coal was not mined because of poor quality. The average thickness was reported as 8.0 to 9.0 ft.
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MRP
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Geological Problems Reported
An abandoned mine filled with water was encountered. Pumping of 3,000 gallons per minute went on for 3 months before they could resume mining. The roof was black shale, ranging from 6 to 12 ft thick. The blue band was present in this mine as an 11 to 13 inch thick band of dirt and bone coal, at a height of 18 to 24 inches above the floor. Since this was difficult to separate from the coal and lowered the quality, the plan at one time was to mine only 4.5 to 5 ft of coal, above the blue band and dirt band and taking only 6 inches of the top coal (leaving the rest to support the roof; the top 2 ft was said to be poor quality). Other notes indicate the bottom coal (below the blue band) was mined over at least part of the mine, and that the quality varied. Pyrite was present in steaks and “sprangles” (apparently this term referred to patches of “leaf sulphur”, or pyrite that accumulated as a very thin coating on a small surface of coal), but no solid pyrite bands or nodules were seen. In places, knolls of limestone protruded up from the floor, cutting out nearly all the lower bench (below the blue band) of coal.
Production
| Company
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Mine Name
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Date
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Production (tons)
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Production Notes
Coal Report production (if available)
Sources of Data
| Microfilm, document 352500
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11-1919
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1:2400
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1:4469
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Not final
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Annotated Bibliography (Data source - brief description of information)
| Coal Reports - Production, ownership, years of operation.
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| Directory of Illinois Coal Mines (Jackson County) - Mine names, mine index, ownership, years of operation.
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| Mine notes (Jackson County) - Mine type, shaft location, seam, depth, thickness, geologic problems.
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| Microfilm map, document 352500, reel 03139, frames 196, 197 - Shaft location, mine outline, mining method.
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Mine Notes
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