Mine Index Number: 2892
| Company Name:
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Oleander Mining Company
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| Mine Name:
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Oleander Mine
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| Start Date:
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1894
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End Date:
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1925
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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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13
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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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McLean
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24N 5E
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2
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NE NE SW
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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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| Frank Seymour and Son
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Seymour
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1894-1895
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none The 1895 Coal Report stated that the shaft was sunk and then very little else done beyond removing a little bit of coal around the shaft, because of a misunderstanding of the different stockholders.
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| East Colfax Coal Company The East Colfax Coal Company was owned by Ewing and Pitt of Bloomington, Illinois, who bought the Seymour Mine about a year after litigation ceased. According to Gilbert M. Johnson in “Colfax, Illinois and its Coal Mines”, the company was known as Stevenson Company.
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East Colfax
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1898-1901
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51,800
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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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Undated
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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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| Directory of Illinois Coal Mines (McLean County) - Mine names, mine index, ownership, years of operation.
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| Mine notes (McLean County) - Mine type, shaft location, seam, depth, thickness.
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| Gilbert Johnson, 1954, Colfax, Illinois and Its Coal Mines [Master’s Thesis]: Normal, Illinois State Normal University, 124 p. - Mine ownership.
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Mine Notes
Mine Images
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