Mine Index 2035 Spring Valley Coal Company, Spring Valley No. 2 Mine

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Mine Index Number: 2035


Company Name:	Spring Valley Coal Company
Mine Name:	Spring Valley No. 2 Mine
Start Date:	1892	End Date:	December 31, 1908
Type of Mine:	Underground
Total acres shown:	1,089
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 (No. 2) ^[1]

Bureau

16N 11E

35

SW NW NE

Shaft (No. 4) ^[2]

Bureau

16N 11E

35

SW NW NE

Geology

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

Colchester

359

3.5-3.67

LW

Geological Problems Reported

Production

Company

Mine Name

Date

Production (tons)

Spring Valley Coal Company (add)	Spring Valley No. 4 (add)	1892-1901 ^[3]	249,699

Spring Valley Coal Company (add)	Spring Valley No. 2 (add)	1885-1908	4,971,776


Total Production: 5,221,475

Production Notes

Coal Report production (if available)

Sources of Data

Federal Land Bank Report

6-1935

1:63360

Secondary source

Bulletin 37, Plate II

1919

1:62500

Secondary source

Annotated Bibliography (Data source - brief description of information)

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

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

Mine notes (Bureau County) - Mine type, shaft location, depth.

Federal Land Bank Report (Bureau County) - Shaft locations, mine outline, mining method.

Cady, Gilbert H., 1919, Geology and Mineral Resources of the Hennepin and La Salle Quadrangles, Illinois State Geological Survey, Bulletin 37, Plate II - Shaft locations.

Mine Notes

Mine Images

Photographs

Notes

↑ The No. 4 Mine production was reported with the No. 2 Mine from 1896-1901. The No. 4 shaft is the more northern of the two shafts in SW NW NE, and was probably used as an air / escape shaft for the No. 2 Mine. The No. 2 Mine was also connected underground to the Spring Valley No. 1 Mine (mine index 0243), as indicated by the rescue of most of the mules through that connection during the fire that destroyed the shaft and closed the No. 2 Mine on December 31, 1908.
↑ The No. 4 Mine production was reported with the No. 2 Mine from 1896-1901. The No. 4 shaft is the more northern of the two shafts in SW NW NE, and was probably used as an air / escape shaft for the No. 2 Mine. The No. 2 Mine was also connected underground to the Spring Valley No. 1 Mine (mine index 0243), as indicated by the rescue of most of the mules through that connection during the fire that destroyed the shaft and closed the No. 2 Mine on December 31, 1908.
↑ This (first) No. 4 Mine was connected underground to the No. 2 Mine. The production from the No. 4 was reported separately from 1892 to 1895, then reported with the No. 2 Mine from 1896-1901, and was thereafter ignored. (The second No. 4 Mine began reporting when Spring Valley Coal Company bought the Chicago, Wilmington & Franklin No. 1 Mine in 1903, and is located in this report under mine index 0241.)

[1] The No. 4 Mine production was reported with the No. 2 Mine from 1896-1901. The No. 4 shaft is the more northern of the two shafts in SW NW NE, and was probably used as an air / escape shaft for the No. 2 Mine. The No. 2 Mine was also connected underground to the Spring Valley No. 1 Mine (mine index 0243), as indicated by the rescue of most of the mules through that connection during the fire that destroyed the shaft and closed the No. 2 Mine on December 31, 1908.

[2] The No. 4 Mine production was reported with the No. 2 Mine from 1896-1901. The No. 4 shaft is the more northern of the two shafts in SW NW NE, and was probably used as an air / escape shaft for the No. 2 Mine. The No. 2 Mine was also connected underground to the Spring Valley No. 1 Mine (mine index 0243), as indicated by the rescue of most of the mules through that connection during the fire that destroyed the shaft and closed the No. 2 Mine on December 31, 1908.

[3] This (first) No. 4 Mine was connected underground to the No. 2 Mine. The production from the No. 4 was reported separately from 1892 to 1895, then reported with the No. 2 Mine from 1896-1901, and was thereafter ignored. (The second No. 4 Mine began reporting when Spring Valley Coal Company bought the Chicago, Wilmington & Franklin No. 1 Mine in 1903, and is located in this report under mine index 0241.)

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