Mine Index Number: 2773
| Company Name:
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P. Wonderly Coal Company
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| Mine Name:
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Wonderly Mine
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| Start Date:
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1879
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End Date:
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October 1897
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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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65
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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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| Main shaft
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Madison
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4N 8W
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10
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NE NW NE[1]
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| Escape (old hoist) shaft
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Madison
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4N 8W
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10
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SE SE NE[2]
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Geology
| Herrin
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148 (65 - 160)
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5.0-6.5
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RP
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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: 320,146
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Production Notes
Coal Report production (if available)
Sources of Data
| Robert Gibson, IDNR
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4-2003
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1:1
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1:24000 [5]
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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, depth, thickness, mining method.
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| Mine notes (Madison County) - Mine type, seam, depth, thickness, abandonment date.
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| Edwardsville Intelligencer, provided by Robert Gibson (IDNR) - Mine ownership, abandonment date, depth.
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| History of Madison County, Illinois; Published by W. R. Brink & Co., Edwardsville, Illinois, 1882 - Mine location, opening year, ownership.
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| Atlas of Madison County, 1892 - Shaft locations.
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| Robert Gibson (IDNR), personal communication 4-24-2003 - Shaft locations.
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Mine Notes
Mine Images
Atlas:
Map Date: 1892
Coal Co.: P. Wonderly Coal Company
Mine Name: Wonderly Mine
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Photographs
Additional Notes
Notes
- ↑ No map has been found of the workings for this mine. The locations are from Robert Gibson of Abandoned Mine Lands, Office of Mines & Minerals (AML-OMM), Department of Natural Resources, with global positioning system apparatus.
- ↑ No map has been found of the workings for this mine. The locations are from Robert Gibson of Abandoned Mine Lands, Office of Mines & Minerals (AML-OMM), Department of Natural Resources, with global positioning system apparatus.
- ↑ The new hoist shaft, constructed in 1884-1885, was equipped with engines and boiler from the Gaffney mine, whose location and dates of operation are unknown. Production from July 1879 to June 1882 unknown.
- ↑ The mine was abandoned due to flooding, reported in the Edwardsville Intelligencer, 10-26-1897, 10-29-1897, and 11-23-1897. Apparently the old Shrameck workings were filled with water and when a hole was drilled for powder, the drilling broke into the old works. After a month of pumping, the attempt to restore the Wonderly mine to production was deemed ineffective, and the mine abandoned. Schrameck’s main shaft used for the air shaft of the Wonderly mine. This strongly implies that portions of the older mine were part of the Wonderly mine, but a plat of the older workings were not available to the mine in 1897, which caused the water break-through. The newspaper articles stated that the last owner of the mine was G. H. Donnewald, although the company name remained P. Wonderly Coal Company.
- ↑ UTM GPS coordinates converted to Lambert Conformable Conic projection for plotting onto 1:24,000 USGS topographic map.
Verified Shaft Locations
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Latitude
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Longitude
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| Shaft 1
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38.814149
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-89.96742147249545
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| Shaft 2
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38.814384
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-89.97165724435118
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