Mine Index Number: 0410
| Company Name:
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W. G. Sutton
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| Mine Name:
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Minonk No. 2 Mine
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| Start Date:
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1869
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End Date:
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1951
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| Type of Mine:
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Underground
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| Total acres shown:
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950
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| Production Indicated Acres:
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Less than 1 acre was mined after the 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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Woodford
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28N 2E
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6
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SW SW NE
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| Escape shaft (old hoist) [1]
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Woodford
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28N 2E
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7
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NE NW NE
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| Air shaft
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Woodford
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28N 2E
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7
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NE NW NE
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Geology
| Colchester
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532-565
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2.5-3.0
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LW
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Geological Problems Reported
A few small horsebacks were present. There were slips in the roof that caused the roof to fall unless properly supported. Part of the roof was often removed so that there was room for the haulage cars in the mine. The floor was a fire clay that varied in thickness, and along with shale roof material, was often hoisted out of the mine and sold to a nearby cement company.
Production
| Company
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Mine Name
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Date
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Production (tons)
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| Total Production: 4,129,340
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Production Notes
Coal Report production (if available)
Sources of Data
| Microfilm, document 353310
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2-1951
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1:2400
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1:4303
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Not final
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| Sanborn
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5-1885
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1:600
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1:600
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Secondary source
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Annotated Bibliography (Data source - brief description of information)
| Coal Reports - Production, ownership, years of operation, air shaft location, geologic problems.
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| Directory of Illinois Coal Mines (Woodford County) - Mine names, mine index, ownership, years of operation.
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| ENR Document 85/01 - Mining method.
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| Mine notes (Woodford County) - Mine type, shaft location, seam, depth, thickness, geologic problems.
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| Microfilm map, document 353310, reel 03142, frames 281, 282 - Shaft locations, mine outline, mining method.
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| Sanborn Map Publishing Company, Minonk, May 1885 - Air shaft (original) location.
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Mine Notes
Mine Images
Photographs
Notes
- ↑ This was originally the main shaft. On the accompanying map, this is the western air shaft. The eastern air shaft is the original air shaft.
- ↑ The company was organized in 1869 and reached the Danville Coal at a depth of 314 feet three years after the organization. This coal was low quality and the company was reorganized with different board members and the shaft was deepened to the Colchester Coal. Lacking resources to invest in the machinery to actually mine the coal, the company was re-organized to give Miner Ames a controlling interest. The year of this transfer is uncertain, but probably at least one year passed to raise funds and lower the shaft the 200 feet between the Danville and Colchester Coals.
- ↑ Production prior to 1879 is unknown.
- ↑ Production after map date
