Mine Index 0310 Spaulding Coal Company, Spaulding No. 1 Mine

Mine Index Number: 0310

Company Name:	Spaulding Coal Company
Mine Name:	Spaulding No. 1 Mine
Start Date:	1883	End Date:	February 1913
Type of Mine:	Underground
Total acres shown:	433
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 No air shaft was shown on the source map for the mine. The underground workings are connected to Peabody No. 52 Mine (mine index 36) in SE SW 3-T16N-R4W, which may have compensated for the lack of an escape shaft in the workings, but it is likely another air shaft exists.

Sangamon

16N 4W

4

SW cor NE NE SE

Geology

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

Springfield

238

6.1

MRP

Production

Company

Mine Name

Date

Production (tons)

Riverton Coal Company (add)	Riverton No. 2 (add)	1883-1884	4,100

Sangamon Coal and Mining Company (add)	Sangamon No. 2 (add)	1884-1886	44,650

Illinois Fuel Company (add)	Illinois Fuel (add)	1886-1893	599,726

Phoenix Coal Company (add)	Spaulding (add)	1893-1895	83,793

William Rutledge (add)	Spaulding (add)	1895-1896	32,100

Spaulding Coal Company (add)	Spaulding No. 1 (add)	1896-1905	767,835

Standard Washed Coal Company (add)	Spaulding No. 1 (add)	1905-1911	394,344

Springfield Coal Company (add)	Springfield (add)	1911-1912 Idle 1912	37,488

Spaulding Coal Company (add)	Spaulding No. 1 (add)	1912-1913	25,200

Total Production: 1,989,236

Production Notes

Coal Report production (if available)

Sources of Data

Source Map

Map Date

Original Scale

Digitized Scale

Map Type

Microfilm, document 351228

5-20-1932

1:2400

1:4800

Secondary source

Annotated Bibliography (Data source - brief description of information)

Coal Reports - Production, ownership, years of operation, mining method.

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.

Microfilm map, document 351228, reel 03134, frames 445 & 446, map of Peabody No. 52 Mine (mine index 36) - Shaft location, mine outline, mining method.