Mine Index Number: 2698
| Company Name:
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Ed and Sam Smith
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| Mine Name:
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Smith Mine
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| Start Date:
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1931
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End Date:
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1932
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| Type of Mine:
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Underground
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| Total acres shown:
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None
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| Production Indicated Acres:
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1
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General Area of mining acres shown:
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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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| Mine
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La Salle
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33N 4E
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10
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NW NW SE
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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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| Ed and Sam Smith
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Smith
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1931-1932The 1932 production was not reported and was less than 1,000 tons. (Production was not listed from 1930 to 1933 for mines producing less than 1,000 tons per year.) The mine did operate in 1932, because Ed Smith’s fatal accident in the mine was reported in December 1932.
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2,000
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Production Notes
Coal Report production (if available)
Sources of Data
| Mine notes
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1931
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1:62500
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1:24000The mine location was plotted on a 1:24000 USGS topographic map from the mine location description and digitized.
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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, 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) - Mine location.
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Mine Notes
Mine Images
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