Mine Index Number: 2531
Company Name:
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Taylor Williams Coal Company
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Mine Name:
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Clark City Mine
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Start Date:
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1882
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End Date:
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1889
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Type of Mine:
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Underground
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Total acres shown:
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Acres after map date:
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General Area of mining acres shown:
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160 [1]
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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 [2]
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Kankakee
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31N 9E
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19
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SW NE NW
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Geology
Colchester
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74-95
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2.87-3.0
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LW (old longwall)
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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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Total Production: 342,353
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Production Notes
Coal Report production (if available)
Sources of Data
Atlas of Kankakee County
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1883
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1:36206
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1:36206
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Secondary Source
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Coal Section files, 5-e-16
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Undated
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1:12000
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1:12000
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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, mine type, seam, depth, thickness, mining method.
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Directory of Illinois Coal Mines (Kankakee County) - Mine names, mine index, ownership, years of operation.
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Atlas of Kankakee County, published by J. H. Beers & Co., Chicago, Illinois, 1883, 170 pages - Shaft location.
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Coal Section files, 5-e-16, map of Northern Mine (mine index 834) - Mine outline.
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“Another Visit to the Coal Mines”, 1881, Chicago Tribune, in A Coal Field Collection - Mine name, shaft description, depth.
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Mine Notes
Mine Images
Photographs
Notes
- ↑ Production indicates approximately 72 acres were mined.
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ This mine may have also been known as the Fairbanks Mine.