Mine Index 3270 Lanham Coal Company, Lanham No. 1 Mine

Mine Index Number: 3270

Company Name:	Lanham Coal Company
Mine Name:	Lanham No. 1 Mine
Start Date:	1936	End Date:	November 1953
Type of Mine:	Underground
Total acres shown:	48
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

Saline

9S 5E

34

NE SE NW

Air shaft

Saline

9S 5E

34

SE cor SE NE NW

Geology

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

Springfield

107

4.67

MRP

Geological Problems Reported

One source map showed a northwest-southeast trending fault that halted eastward expansion.

Production

Company

Mine Name

Date

Production (tons)

Carrier Mills Coal Company (add)	Carrier Mills (add)	1936-1941	111,216

Idle		1942-1947

B. and W. Coal Company (add)	B. and W. No. 2 (add)	1948-1949	17,224

Lanham Coal Company (add)	Lanham No. 1 (add)	1949-1953	133,196

Total Production: 261,636

Production Notes

Coal Report production (if available)

Sources of Data

Source Map

Map Date

Original Scale

Digitized Scale

Map Type

State archive, IL_2566_01

11-8-1953

1:1200

1:1200

Final

Annotated Bibliography (Data source - brief description of information)

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

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

Mine notes (Saline County) - Mine type, slope location, seam.

State archive, IL_2566_01 - Slope and shaft locations, mine outline, mining method.

ISGS map library, 4103.S32 i5.1-17 - Geologic problems.