Mine Index 2400 Lee Fisher, Fisher Mine

Mine Index Number: 2400

Company Name:	Lee Fisher
Mine Name:	Fisher Mine
Start Date:	1907	End Date:	1928
Type of Mine:	Underground
Total acres shown:	None
Production Indicated Acres:	10	General Area of mining acres shown:

Shaft, Slope, Drift or Tipple Location(s)

Type	County	Township-Range	Section	Part Section

Main shaft

Morgan

14N 10W

9

SW SW NW

Geology

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

Herrin

48-65

2.5

RP

Geological Problems Reported

The shaft was deepened from 60 feet to a 3.0 feet thick seam at 95 feet deep in 1935. The deeper seam had many horsebacks, and the roof consisted of soft, flakey shale that would not stay up. Consequently, mining was abandoned shortly after opening up the lower seam.

Production

Company

Mine Name

Date

Production (tons)

W. Fisher (add)	Fisher (add)	1907-1909	4,700

Glen H. Fisher (add)	Fisher (add)	1909-1910	1,228

Glen and Fisher (add)	Fisher (add)	1910-1911	1,515

Fisher Brothers (add)	Fisher (add)	1911-1912	1,085

G. H. Fisher (add)	Fisher (add)	1912-1913	956

W. T. Fisher (add)	Fisher (add)	1913-1917	3,630

David P. Fisher (add)	Fisher (add)	1917-1924 Idle 1923 & 1924	6,098

Lee Fisher (add)	Fisher (add)	1924-1928 Idle 1926	900

Total Production: 20,112

Production Notes

Coal Report production (if available)

Sources of Data

Source Map

Map Date

Original Scale

Digitized Scale

Map Type

ISGS field notes (E. T. Benson)

circa 1935

1:62500

1:62500

Secondary source

Annotated Bibliography (Data source - brief description of information)

Coal Reports - Production, ownership, years of operation, mining method.

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

Mine notes (Morgan County) - Mine type, shaft location, seam, depth, thickness.

ISGS field notes (Morgan County) - Shaft location.