Mine Index 2500 Young Coal Company, Young Mine

Mine Index Number: 2500

Company Name:	Young Coal Company
Mine Name:	Young Mine
Start Date:	1916	End Date:	1939
Type of Mine:	Underground
Total acres shown:	2
Acres after map date:	Less than 1 acre	General Area of mining acres shown:

Shaft, Slope, Drift or Tipple Location(s)

Type	County	Township-Range	Section	Part Section

Main drift

Jackson

9S 1W

27

SW SW NE

Geology

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

Murphysboro

4.0

MRP

Production

Company

Mine Name

Date

Production (tons)

William Young (add)	Young (add)	1916-1921 The source map had an initial survey date of January 1916 and was extended in April 1932. Production was not listed in the Coal Reports until the 1921 fiscal year. The mine may have operated under other names in the intervals between these periods of reported production.	1,000

William Young and Son (add)	Young (add)	1928-1930 The source map had an initial survey date of January 1916 and was extended in April 1932. Production was not listed in the Coal Reports until the 1921 fiscal year. The mine may have operated under other names in the intervals between these periods of reported production.	2,458

Young Coal Company (add)	Young (add)	1938-1939 The source map had an initial survey date of January 1916 and was extended in April 1932. Production was not listed in the Coal Reports until the 1921 fiscal year. The mine may have operated under other names in the intervals between these periods of reported production.	48 Production after the map date

Total Production: 3,506

Production Notes

Coal Report production (if available)

Sources of Data

Source Map

Map Date

Original Scale

Digitized Scale

Map Type

Microfilm, document 352513

4-5-1932

1:1200

1:993

Not final

Annotated Bibliography (Data source - brief description of information)

Coal Reports - Production, ownership, years of operation.

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

Mine notes (Jackson County) - Mine location, seam, thickness.

Microfilm map, document 352513, reel 03139, frame 218 - Drift location, mine outline, mining method.