Mine Index Number: 2385
| Company Name:
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Morris Coal Company
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| Mine Name:
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Morris Mine
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| Start Date:
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1899
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End Date:
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1907
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| Type of Mine:
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Underground
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| Total acres shown:
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None
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| Production Indicated Acres:
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8
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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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| Main shaft
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Grundy
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33N 7E
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5
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SE SW
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Geology
| Colchester
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60
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|
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2.67-3.0
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LW, RP (old longwall) The annual Coal Reports consistently listed this mine as underground, although the method vacillated between longwall and room-and-pillar.
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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
| Sanborn Fire Insurance maps
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3-1907
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1:600
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1:600 The point was hand plotted on a 1:24,00 USGS 7.5-minute topographic map and digitized. note
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Secondary Source
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Annotated Bibliography (Data source - brief description of information)
| Coal Reports - Production, ownership, years of operation, seam, thickness, mining method.
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| Directory of Illinois Coal Mines (Grundy County) - Mine names, mine index, ownership, years of operation, mining method.
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| Sanborn Map Company Fire Insurance Map - Mine location, depth.
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Mine Notes
Mine Images
Photographs
