Mine Index Number: 2604
| Company Name:
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Lukins and Cavanaugh
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| Mine Name:
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Lukins and Cavanaugh Mine
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| Start Date:
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Circa 1873
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End Date:
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1892
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| Type of Mine:
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Underground
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| Total acres shown:
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| Production Indicated Acres:
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13
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General Area of mining acres shown:
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50
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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
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La Salle
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31N 3E
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23
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NE NW SW
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Geology
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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Production Notes
Coal Report production (if available)
Sources of Data
| ISGS map library, 4103.L32 i5.1-23
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Undated
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1:12069
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1:12069
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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, depth, thickness, mining method.
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| Directory of Illinois Coal Mines (La Salle County) - Mine names, mine index, ownership, years of operation.
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| Mine notes (La Salle County) - Shaft location.
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| Angle, Paula, 1962, Biography in Black: a History of Streator, Illinois, Weber Company, 170p. - Geologic problems.
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| ISGS map library, 4103.L32 i5.1-23, map of Streator Coal Field - Shaft locations, mine outline.
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Mine Notes
Mine Images
Photographs
Notes
- ↑ The 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.
