Mine Index Number: 2346
| Company Name:
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Francis Murphy
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| Mine Name:
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Murphy Mine
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| Start Date:
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Circa 1851
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End Date:
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Unknown
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| Type of Mine:
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Underground
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| Total acres shown:
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| Acres after map date:
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General Area of mining acres shown:
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Shaft, Slope, Drift or Tipple Location(s)
| Type
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County
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Township-Range
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Section
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Part Section
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| Mine
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La Salle
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31N 3E
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35
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SE SW NE
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Geology
Geological Problems Reported
Production
| Company
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Mine Name
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Date
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Production (tons)
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Production Notes
Coal Report production (if available)
Sources of Data
| Biography in Black, a History of Streator, Illinois
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1962
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(text only)
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1:24000 The mine location was plotted on a 1:24000 USGS topographic map from the mine location description and digitized.
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Secondary source
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| Atlas of La Salle County
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1876
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1:6000
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1:6000
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Secondary source
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Annotated Bibliography (Data source - brief description of information)
| Angle, Paula, 1962, Biography in Black: a History of Streator, Illinois, Weber Company, 170p. - Mine name, location.
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| Warner and Beers, 1876, Atlas of La Salle County, Illinois, Chicago, Illinois – Mine location.
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Mine Notes
Mine Images
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