Mine Index 3224 Enterprise Coal Company, Enterprise Mine

Mine Index Number: 3224

Company Name:	Enterprise Coal Company
Mine Name:	Enterprise Mine
Start Date:	1885	End Date:	1898
Type of Mine:	Underground
Total acres shown:	None
Acres after map date:	3	General Area of mining acres shown:
Not Shown On Map. Not shown on accompanying map because of later surface mining by Burning Star No. 3 Mine (mine index 930)

Shaft, Slope, Drift or Tipple Location(s)

Type	County	Township-Range	Section	Part Section

Main shaft

Randolph

5S 6W

34

NE NE NW

Geology

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

Springfield

35-40

5.0

RP

Production

Company

Mine Name

Date

Production (tons)

Leonidas McDonough (add)	McDonough (add)	1885-1890 Idle 1887	4,556

William McDonald (add)	McDonald (add)	1890-1891	1,600

Joseph E. Dobbins (add)	Dobbins (add)	1891-1893	1,353

Fellows and Dobbins (add)	Fellows and Dobbins (add)	1893-1894	40

Enterprise Coal Company (add)	Enterprise (add)	1894-1898	4,337

Total Production: 11,886

Production Notes

Coal Report production (if available)

Sources of Data

Source Map

Map Date

Original Scale

Digitized Scale

Map Type

Federal Land Bank Report

7-1934

1:126720

1:126720

Secondary source

Annotated Bibliography (Data source - brief description of information)

Coal Reports - Production, ownership, years of operation, mine type, mining method.

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

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

Federal Land Bank Report (Randolph County) - Shaft location, mine outline, mining method.