Mine Index 2773 P. Wonderly Coal Company, Wonderly Mine

Mine Index Number: 2773

Company Name:	P. Wonderly Coal Company
Mine Name:	Wonderly Mine
Start Date:	1879	End Date:	October 1897
Type of Mine:	Underground
Total acres shown:	None
Production Indicated Acres:	65	General Area of mining acres shown:

Shaft, Slope, Drift or Tipple Location(s)

Type	County	Township-Range	Section	Part Section

Main shaft

Madison

4N 8W

10

NE NW NENo 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.

Escape (old hoist) shaft

Madison

4N 8W

10

SE SE NENo 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.

Geology

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

Herrin

148 (65 - 160)

5.0-6.5

RP

Production

Company

Mine Name

Date

Production (tons)

Frank Shrameck (add)	Wabash (add)	1879-1886	114,058 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.

P. Wonderly Coal Company (add)	Wonderly (add)	1886-1897 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.	206,088

Total Production: 320,146

Production Notes

Coal Report production (if available)

Sources of Data

Source Map

Map Date

Original Scale

Digitized Scale

Map Type

Robert Gibson, IDNR

4-2003

1:1

1:24000 UTM GPS coordinates converted to Lambert Conformable Conic projection for plotting onto 1:24,000 USGS topographic map.

Secondary source

Annotated Bibliography (Data source - brief description of information)

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

Mine notes (Madison County) - Mine type, seam, depth, thickness, abandonment date.

Edwardsville Intelligencer, provided by Robert Gibson (IDNR) - Mine ownership, abandonment date, depth.

History of Madison County, Illinois; Published by W. R. Brink & Co., Edwardsville, Illinois, 1882 - Mine location, opening year, ownership.

Atlas of Madison County, 1892 - Shaft locations.

Robert Gibson (IDNR), personal communication 4-24-2003 - Shaft locations.

Verified Shaft Locations

	Latitude	Longitude
Shaft 1	38.814149	-89.96742147249545
Shaft 2	38.814384	-89.97165724435118