Mine Index 2700 E. Roy Myers, Peacock Mine

Mine Index Number: 2700

Company Name:	E. Roy Myers
Mine Name:	Peacock Mine
Start Date:	1934	End Date:	1942
Type of Mine:	Surface
Total acres shown:	6
Acres after map date:		General Area of mining acres shown:

Shaft, Slope, Drift or Tipple Location(s)

Type	County	Township-Range	Section	Part Section

Pit

La Salle

33N 4E

18

NW SW NE

Geology

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

Colchester

14

2.0

Surface

Production

Company

Mine Name

Date

Production (tons)

South Ottawa Coal Company (add)	South Ottawa (add)	1934-1934	500

Stevenson and Myers (add)	Stevenson and Myers (add)	1934-1935	4,250

Smith and Harrington Company (add)	Smith and Harrington (add)	1934-1936	19,709

Stevenson, Myers and Stevenson (add)	Peacock (add)	1936-1936	610

South Ottawa Fuel and Mining Company (add)	South Ottawa (add)	1937-1937	1,000

Roy Meyers (add)	Peacock (add)	1937-1941Idle 1938	2,969

South Ottawa Fuel Company (add)	Peacock (add)	1942-1942	174

Total Production: 29,212

Production Notes

Coal Report production (if available)

Sources of Data

Source Map

Map Date

Original Scale

Digitized Scale

Map Type

Coal section files

Undated

1:62500

1:62500

Secondary source

Annotated Bibliography (Data source - brief description of information)

Coal Reports - Production, ownership, years of operation.

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

Mine notes (La Salle County) - Mine location, seam, depth, thickness.

Coal section files, work map on USGS (15-minute) Ottawa Quadrangle topographic map - Mine outline.