Mine Index 0774 H. E. Presswood Coal Company, Presswood Mine

Mine Index Number: 0774

Company Name:	H. E. Presswood Coal Company
Mine Name:	Presswood Mine
Start Date:	1889	End Date:	1939
Type of Mine:	Underground
Total acres shown:	31
Acres after map date:	Less than 1	General Area of mining acres shown:

Shaft, Slope, Drift or Tipple Location(s)

Type	County	Township-Range	Section	Part Section

Main shaft

Perry

5S 3W

13

SE SE SW

Air shaft

Perry

5S 3W

13

SW SE SW

Geology

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

Herrin

84-92

5.5

6.5

6.0

RPB

Geological Problems Reported

The roof was generally a gray shale, often composed of 3 to 6 feet of white top, some of which came down with the coal. A “claw” of limestone cap rock descended to within 2 feet of the floor (300 feet southwest of the new hoist shaft). This area also had many concretions in the black shale. In the western part of the mine, the limestone was 6 inches above the coal. In the eastern part, up to 4 feet of black shale was between the coal and limestone. The blue band was 7 inches above the floor, and was composed of up to 2 inches of clay and shale.

Production

Company

Mine Name

Date

Production (tons)

Faust and Turner (add)	Faust and Turner (add)	1889-1890	900

Faust, Turner and Malone (add)	Faust, Turner and Malone (add)	1890-1891	650

Faust and Company (add)	Faust (add)	1891-1892	1,972

Faust, Turner and Burk (add)	Faust, Turner and Burk (add)	1892-1895	34,578

Turner and Faust Coal Company (add)	Turner and Faust (add)	1895-1902	55,795

Strait Coal Company (add)	Strait (add)	1902-1913	84,094

Sherman Haggard (add)	Haggard (add)	1913-1914	2,076

Montgomery Brothers and Langwith (add)	Montgomery and Langwith (add)	1914-1915	4,165

Montgomery Coal Company (add)	Montgomery (add)	1915-1918	34,551

Louden Coal Company (add)	Louden (add)	1918-1924	37,870

Anderson and Langworth (add)	Anderson and Langworth (add)	1924-1927	3,290

North Side Coal Company (add)	North Side (add)	1928-1928	2,200

Wilson and Bird (add)	Wilson and Bird (add)	1929-1929	1,400

S. G. Wilkerson, H. Bird and R. Rudloff (add)	Wilkerson, Bird and Rudloff (add)	1930-1930	2,600

Henson and Davison Brothers (add)	Henson and Davison (add)	1931-1932	2,700

Biby Coal Company (add)	Biby (add)	1933-1937	13,403

Bird and Tanner (add)	Bird and Tanner (add)	1937-1937	291

H. E. Presswood Coal Company (add)	Presswood (add)	1938-1939	693

Total Production: 283,228

Production Notes

Coal Report production (if available)

Sources of Data

Source Map

Map Date

Original Scale

Digitized Scale

Map Type

Microfilm, document 352082

1937

1:2400

1:5296

Not final

Federal Land Bank Report

9-21-1933

1:126720

1:126720

Secondary source

Annotated Bibliography (Data source - brief description of information)

Coal Reports - Production, ownership, years of operation.

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

Mine notes (Perry County) - Mine type, shaft location, seam, depth, thickness, geologic problems.

Microfilm map, document 352082, reel 03138, frame 62 - Shaft locations, mine outline, mining method.

Federal Land Bank Report (Perry County) - Mine outline (western side).