Mine Index 0421 Franklin County Coal Corporation, Energy No. 5 Mine

Mine Index Number: 0421

Company Name:	Franklin County Coal Corporation
Mine Name:	Energy No. 5 Mine
Start Date:	1909	End Date:	April 1950
Type of Mine:	Underground
Total acres shown:	2,669
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 (9.5 x 16 ft)

Franklin

7S 2E

33

NW SW SW

Air Shaft

Franklin

7S 2E

32

610 FSL, 360 FEL

Geology

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

Geological Problems Reported

Gas may have been a problem; one man was killed by an explosion. The roof was a gray sandy shale that was soft and full of slips. Top coal was generally left to protect and support the roof; this top coal was recovered on retreat. The seam was very hilly. Grades of 8% were common. A northwest-southeast trending cutout was present at the shaft bottom. A fault with 27 feet of throw and a 10 foot gouge zone was present. There were very few impurities in the seam, only a few faces of calcite were observed. The underclay did not heave much.

Production

Company

Mine Name

Date

Production (tons)

Southern Illinois Coal and Coke Company (add)	Possum Ridge (add)	1909-1914	724,785

Taylor Mining Company (add)	Possum Ridge (add)	1914-1916	384,334

Taylor Coal Corporation (add)	Taylor No. 5 (add)	1916-1923	2,163,289

Franklin County Coal Corporation (add)	Energy No. 5 (add)	1923-1950	16,206,395

Total Production: 19,478,803

Production Notes

Coal Report production (if available)

Sources of Data

Source Map

Map Date

Original Scale

Digitized Scale

Map Type

Microfilm, document 351445

4-15-1950

1:6000

1:14068

Final

Annotated Bibliography (Data source - brief description of information)

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

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

Mine notes (Franklin County) - Mine type, shaft locations, seam, depth, thickness, geologic problems.

Microfilm map, document 351445, reel 03136, frames 124-128 - Shaft locations, mine outline, mining method.

Company map, ISGS map library, 4102 i5.1-3 - Shaft locations (used to locate air shaft on microfilm).