Mine Index 0618 Panther Creek Mines, Inc., Panther Creek No. 4 Mine

Mine Index Number: 0618

Company Name:	Panther Creek Mines, Inc.
Mine Name:	Panther Creek No. 4 Mine
Start Date:	1871	End Date:	April 1946
Type of Mine:	Underground
Total acres shown:	1,613
Acres after map date:		General Area of mining acres shown:

Shaft, Slope, Drift or Tipple Location(s)

Type	County	Township-Range	Section	Part Section

Hoist shaft Another hoist shaft for the Old North Mine is reputed to be in the vicinity of 1500 N. Lincoln. The exact location is not known.

Sangamon

16N 5W

29

NE SE NE

Air shaft

Sangamon

16N 5W

30

NW SW NE

Escape shaft

Sangamon

16N 5W

29

NW SE NE

Geology

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

Springfield

150

5.5

6.0

5.6

RPP

Production

Company

Mine Name

Date

Production (tons)

Mrs. Charles R. Hurst (add)	West End (add)	1871-1882	32,000 Production for 1871-1883 unknown. Possible location of Old North Mine, which opened in 1865. The 1882 Coal Report indicated 80 acres were mined.

West End Coal Company (add)	West End, Old West (add)	1882-1927	6,106,251

Panther Creek Mines, Inc. (add)	Panther Creek No. 4 (add)	1927-1946	3,334,753

Total Production: 9,473,004

Production Notes

Coal Report production (if available)

Sources of Data

Source Map

Map Date

Original Scale

Digitized Scale

Map Type

State Archive, IL_380_09

3-31-1947

1:2400

1:5628

Final The southeast portion of the map may be incomplete, and mining may extend east of the mapped boundary. The extent of the Old North Mine may not be included in the mapped boundary.

Annotated Bibliography (Data source - brief description of information)

Coal Reports - Production, ownership, years of operation.

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.

State Archive, IL_380_09 - Shaft locations, mine outline.