Mine Index 2604 Lukins and Cavanaugh, Lukins and Cavanaugh Mine

Mine Index Number: 2604

Company Name:	Lukins and Cavanaugh
Mine Name:	Lukins and Cavanaugh Mine
Start Date:	Circa 1873	End Date:	1892
Type of Mine:	Underground
Total acres shown:
Production Indicated Acres:	13	General Area of mining acres shown:	50

Shaft, Slope, Drift or Tipple Location(s)

Type	County	Township-Range	Section	Part Section

Main shaft

La Salle

31N 3E

23

NE NW SW

Geology

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

Herrin

30-50

5.0-5.5

RP

Production

Company

Mine Name

Date

Production (tons)

Coal Run Coal Company (add)	Peanut (add)	pre1881-1882The 1882 Coal Report indicated 25 acres had been mined. Ownership, production and years of operation before July 1881 are unknown. Biography in Black, A History of Streator, Illinois implies that this mine opened in the early 1870s.	25,000

Lukins and Kavanaugh (add)	Old Peanut (add)	1882-1888	26,988

M. Brooks (add)	Brooks (add)	1888-1889	800

Lukins and Cavanaugh (add)	Lukins and Cavanaugh (add)	1889-1892	7,468

Total Production: 60,256

Production Notes

Coal Report production (if available)

Sources of Data

Source Map

Map Date

Original Scale

Digitized Scale

Map Type

ISGS map library, 4103.L32 i5.1-23

Undated

1:12069

1:12069

Secondary source

Annotated Bibliography (Data source - brief description of information)

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

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

Mine notes (La Salle County) - Shaft location.

Angle, Paula, 1962, Biography in Black: a History of Streator, Illinois, Weber Company, 170p. - Geologic problems.

ISGS map library, 4103.L32 i5.1-23, map of Streator Coal Field - Shaft locations, mine outline.