Mine Index 2375 Big Four Wilmington Coal Company, Big Four Wilmington No. 4 Mine

Mine Index Number: 2375

Company Name:	Big Four Wilmington Coal Company
Mine Name:	Big Four Wilmington No. 4 Mine
Start Date:	1900	End Date:	1904
Type of Mine:	Underground
Total acres shown:	None
Acres after map date:	35	General Area of mining acres shown:

Shaft, Slope, Drift or Tipple Location(s)

Type	County	Township-Range	Section	Part Section

Main slope

Grundy

33N 8E

27

NE SE SW

Geology

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

Colchester

75

3.0

LW

Production

Company

Mine Name

Date

Production (tons)

Star Coal Company (add)	Star No. 4 (add)	1900-1902	84,809

Taylor and Cavanaugh (add)	Taylor and Cavenaugh No. 4 (add)	1902-1904	84,004

Big Four Wilmington Coal Company (add)	Big Four Wilmington No. 4 (add)	unknown No production listed under this name in the Coal Reports. Production from this location was probably reported from the tipple of one of the other Big Four Wilmington Company mines; No. 1 (mine index 2379), No. 2 (mine index 2381), No. 3 (mine index 2382), No. 5 (mine index 2378) or No. 6 (mine index 6). Another alternative is that the reserves were bought as a company package, but this mine did not operate after 1904. Usually a mine is known as the name of the last producing coal company. Since contemporaneous literature referred to the Big Four Wilmington No. 4 Mine, the convention is waived.	unknown No production listed under this name in the Coal Reports. Production from this location was probably reported from the tipple of one of the other Big Four Wilmington Company mines; No. 1 (mine index 2379), No. 2 (mine index 2381), No. 3 (mine index 2382), No. 5 (mine index 2378) or No. 6 (mine index 6). Another alternative is that the reserves were bought as a company package, but this mine did not operate after 1904. Usually a mine is known as the name of the last producing coal company. Since contemporaneous literature referred to the Big Four Wilmington No. 4 Mine, the convention is waived.

Total Production: 168,813

Production Notes

Coal Report production (if available)

Sources of Data

Source Map

Map Date

Original Scale

Digitized Scale

Map Type

ISGS Bulletin 43, Plate III

1919

1:62500

1:62500

Secondary source

Annotated Bibliography (Data source - brief description of information)

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

Mine notes (Grundy County) - Mine type, slope location.

ISGS Bulletin 43, Plate III - Slope location.

Microfilm map, document 351692, reel 03137, frames 59 & 60, map of Big Four Wilmington No. 5 Mine (mine index 2378) - Mine outline (southernmost extension, too incomplete for use).