Mine Index Number: 2850
| Company Name:
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Hunt Coal Company
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| Mine Name:
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Hunt Mine
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| Start Date:
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1934
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End Date:
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1939
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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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Less than 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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| Main slope
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Marshall
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12N 9E
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2
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NW SW 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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| Nighswonger Brothers Nighswonger was spelled various ways (Negsonger, Nyswonger, etc.); the spelling chosen here is from the 1890 Plat and the later production in the Coal Reports.
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Nighswonger
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1934-1935 Idle 1935; may have been active 1930-1933 producing less than 1,000 tons/year
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122
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| C. Nighswonger Nighswonger was spelled various ways (Negsonger, Nyswonger, etc.); the spelling chosen here is from the 1890 Plat and the later production in the Coal Reports.
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Nighswonger
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1936-1936
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367
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Production Notes
Coal Report production (if available)
Sources of Data
| Mine notes
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Undated
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(text only)
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1:24000 The 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.
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| Directory of Illinois Coal Mines (Marshall County) - Mine names, mine index, ownership, years of operation.
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| Mine notes (Marshall County) - Mine type, slope location, seam.
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Mine Notes
Mine Images
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