Mine Index 0762 Consolidated Coal Company of St. Louis, Consolidated No. 6 Mine

Mine Index Number: 0762

Company Name:	Consolidated Coal Company of St. Louis
Mine Name:	Consolidated No. 6 Mine
Start Date:	1881	End Date:	1909
Type of Mine:	Underground
Total acres shown:	1,030
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

Macoupin

7N 6W

32

NW NE SW

Air shaft

Macoupin

7N 6W

32

NW NE SW

Escape shaft The escape shaft was the formerly the main shaft for the Staunton No. 5 Mine (mine index 2897). (6 x 8 ft)

Macoupin

7N 6W

29

SE SW SE

Geology

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

Herrin

309-325

7.0 (6.0-7.5)

MRP

Production

Company

Mine Name

Date

Production (tons)

Ridgely, Sutton and Daniel (add)	Ridgely, Sutton and Daniel No. 6 (add)	1881-1882	50,000 According to The History of Macoupin County and Staunton in Illinois, Henry Voge sank this shaft about 1880, or perhaps as early as 1877. Production during this time period is unknown.

Ellsworth Coal Company (add)	Ellsworth No. 6 (add)	1882-1886	713,215

Consolidated Coal Company of St. Louis (add)	Consolidated No. 6 (add)	1886-1896	2,582,307

T. E. Weisenbaum (add)	Consolidated No. 6 (add)	1896-1897	279,630

Consolidated Coal Company of St. Louis (add)	Consolidated No. 6 (add)	1897-1909	2,761,165

Total Production: 6,386,317

Production Notes

Coal Report production (if available)

Sources of Data

Source Map

Map Date

Original Scale

Digitized Scale

Map Type

State archive, IL_1127_03

10-8-1909

1:2400

1:2400

Final

Annotated Bibliography (Data source - brief description of information)

Coal Reports - Production, ownership, years of operation, thickness.

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

Mine notes (Madison County) - Shaft location, seam, depth, thickness.

State archive, IL_1127_03 - Shaft locations, mine outline, mining method.

History of Macoupin County, 1911, S. J. Clarke Publishing Company, Chicago, Illinois, 727p. - Ownership.

Kilduff, Mary Dorrell, 1988, Staunton in Illinois, 273 p. - Ownership.