Mine Index 3134 William Parker Halliday and William H. Green, Halliday and Green Mine

Mine Index Number: 3134

Company Name:	William Parker Halliday and William H. Green
Mine Name:	Halliday and Green Mine
Start Date:	1853	End Date:	1875
Type of Mine:	Underground
Total acres shown:	None
Acres after map date:		General Area of mining acres shown:

Shaft, Slope, Drift or Tipple Location(s)

Type	County	Township-Range	Section	Part Section

Main slope The surface works for this slope were later used as the tipple for St. John Mine (mine index 3131) to load their product onto rail cars.

Perry

6S 1W

5

SW SE NW

Geology

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

Herrin

Underground

Production

Company

Mine Name

Date

Production (tons)

J. C. and Cornelius Storm (add)	StormMay have also been known as the St. John No. 1 Mine or Old Paradise No. 1 Mine. (add)	1853-1857	Unknown

Illinois Central Iron and Coal Mining Company (add)	Illinois CentralMay have also been known as the St. John No. 1 Mine or Old Paradise No. 1 Mine. (add)	1857-1867	Unknown

William Parker Halliday and William H. Green (add)	Halliday and GreenMay have also been known as the St. John No. 1 Mine or Old Paradise No. 1 Mine. (add)	1867-1875 The mine was said to have closed in March 1875, when production moved to Halliday’s Paradise No. 2 Mine (mine index 3131).	Unknown

Production Notes

Coal Report production (if available)

Sources of Data

Source Map

Map Date

Original Scale

Digitized Scale

Map Type

Coal Section files (E. T. Benson)

circa 1934

1:48000

1:48000

Secondary source

WPA, T6S-R1W

1940

1:12000

1:12000

Secondary source

Annotated Bibliography (Data source - brief description of information)

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

Mine notes (Perry County) - Shaft location, years of operation.

Coal Section files, work map of E. T. Benson’s field notes - Shaft location.

WPA map, T6S-R1W - Mine location, mine identification.

Austin, David. (1984, November-December). The Salt Center: Halliday's St. John, Illinois Magazine, pg. 28-31 - Ownership, years of operation.