Mine Index 2531 Taylor Williams Coal Company, Clark City Mine

Mine Index Number: 2531

Company Name:	Taylor Williams Coal Company
Mine Name:	Clark City Mine
Start Date:	1882	End Date:	1889
Type of Mine:	Underground
Total acres shown:
Acres after map date:		General Area of mining acres shown:	160 Production indicates approximately 72 acres were mined.

Shaft, Slope, Drift or Tipple Location(s)

Type	County	Township-Range	Section	Part Section

Main shaft The shaft was 6 feet by 14½ feet, which was divided into two 6-foot compartments. The remaining 2½ feet were used as an air shaft.

Kankakee

31N 9E

19

SW NE NW

Geology

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

Colchester

74-95

2.87-3.0

LW (old longwall)

Production

Company

Mine Name

Date

Production (tons)

Kankakee Coal Mining Company (add)	Clark CityThis mine may have also been known as the Fairbanks Mine. (add)	1882-1884	30,500

Taylor Williams Coal Company (add)	Clark City (add)	1884-1889	311,853

Total Production: 342,353

Production Notes

Coal Report production (if available)

Sources of Data

Source Map

Map Date

Original Scale

Digitized Scale

Map Type

Atlas of Kankakee County

1883

1:36206

1:36206

Secondary Source

Coal Section files, 5-e-16

Undated

1:12000

1:12000

Secondary source

Annotated Bibliography (Data source - brief description of information)

Coal Reports - Production, ownership, years of operation, mine type, seam, depth, thickness, mining method.

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

Atlas of Kankakee County, published by J. H. Beers & Co., Chicago, Illinois, 1883, 170 pages - Shaft location.

Coal Section files, 5-e-16, map of Northern Mine (mine index 834) - Mine outline.

“Another Visit to the Coal Mines”, 1881, Chicago Tribune, in A Coal Field Collection - Mine name, shaft description, depth.