Mine Index 2895 Consolidated Coal Company of St. Louis, Consolidated No. 9 Mine

Mine Index Number: 2895

Company Name:	Consolidated Coal Company of St. Louis
Mine Name:	Consolidated No. 9 Mine
Start Date:	1874	End Date:	1891
Type of Mine:	Underground
Total acres shown:	755
Acres after map date:		General Area of mining acres shown:
The boundary between this mine and Consolidated No. 10 (mine index 2894) could not be distinguished. The acreage reported is for both mines.

Shaft, Slope, Drift or Tipple Location(s)

Type	County	Township-Range	Section	Part Section

Main shaft

Macoupin

7N 6W

2

500 FSL, 4100 FWL

Geology

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

Herrin

416

8.0

MRP

Production

Company

Mine Name

Date

Production (tons)

Mt. Olive Coal and Mining Company (add)	Mt. Olive (add)	1874-1883	180,000 Years of operation, production, and ownership prior to 1881 unknown; the Atlas of Macoupin County (1875) shows a shaft at this location. According to the History of Macoupin County, A. J. and C. J. Keiser, the owners of Mt. Olive Coal Company, sunk a shaft in 1874 that appears to correspond best to this mine.

Ellsworth Coal and Mining Company (add)	Ellsworth No. 9 (add)	1883-1886	51,000 Production after 1884 was included in production from No. 10 Mine (mine index 2894)

Consolidated Coal Company of St. Louis (add)	Consolidated No. 9 (add)	1886-1891	Production after 1884 was included in production from No. 10 Mine (mine index 2894)

Total Production: 231,800

Production Notes

Coal Report production (if available)

Sources of Data

Source Map

Map Date

Original Scale

Digitized Scale

Map Type

State archive, IL_1103_03

9-1-1909

1:2400

1:2400

Final

Annotated Bibliography (Data source - brief description of information)

Coal Reports - Production, ownership, years of operation, mine type, depth, thickness.

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

Mine notes (Macoupin County) - Shaft location, seam, thickness.

State archive, IL_1103_03 - Shaft locations, mine outline, mining method.

Atlas of Macoupin County and the State of Illinois, 1875, Chicago: Warner and Beers, 89p. - Years of operation.

History of Macoupin County, 1911, Chicago, Illinois: S. J. Clarke Publishing Company, 727 p. - Ownership, years of operation.