Mine Index 0343 Dawson Coal Mining Company, Dawson No. 2 Mine

Mine Index Number: 0343

Company Name:	Dawson Coal Mining Company
Mine Name:	Dawson No. 2 Mine
Start Date:	1881	End Date:	June 1924
Type of Mine:	Underground
Total acres shown:	883 Production indicates 688 acres were mined. The northern portion of the source map was merely shaded as “worked out”, which certainly includes many not-mined areas within the mine.
Acres after map date:	6	General Area of mining acres shown:

Shaft, Slope, Drift or Tipple Location(s)

Type	County	Township-Range	Section	Part Section

Main shaft

Sangamon

16N 3W

8

NW NW SW

Air shaft

Sangamon

16N 3W

8

NW NW SW

Geology

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

Springfield

250

5.17

MRP

Geological Problems Reported

The roof was very good, with 2 to 3 feet of black shale below sandstone cap rock that ranged from 6 inches to 6 feet thick. Carburetted hydrogen gas (“firedamp”) was sometimes found at the face of the entries. The southern part of the mine showed numerous unmined areas that could indicate geologic problems (the areas were not labeled).

Production

Company

Mine Name

Date

Production (tons)

Wabash Coal and Mining Company (add)	Wabash No. 2 (add)	pre1881-1899 Years of operation and production before July 1881 are unknown. The 1882 Coal Report indicated 8 acres were mined.	997,696

Wabash Coal Company (add)	Wabash No. 1 (add)	1899-1916 Idle or abandoned 1914-1916	1,348,657

Athens-Dawson Coal Company (add)	Dawson (add)	1916-1918	142,996

Dawson Coal Mining Company (add)	Dawson No. 2 (add)	1918-1924	724,171

Dawson Coal Mining Company (add)	Dawson No. 2 (add)	1924-1924	28,514 Production after map date

Total Production: 3,242,034

Production Notes

Coal Report production (if available)

Sources of Data

Source Map

Map Date

Original Scale

Digitized Scale

Map Type

Microfilm, document 351218

4-18-1924

1:2400

1:4966

Not final

Annotated Bibliography (Data source - brief description of information)

Coal Reports - Production, ownership, years of operation, geologic problems.

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, geologic problems.

Microfilm map, document 351218, reel 03134, frames 411, 412 - Shaft locations, mine outline, mining method.