Mine Index Number: 3317
| Company Name:
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Davenport Mining Company
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| Mine Name:
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Davenport Mine
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| Start Date:
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1908
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End Date:
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1910
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| Type of Mine:
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Underground
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| Total acres shown:
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| Production Indicated Acres:
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5
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General Area of mining acres shown:
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21
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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 (8.5'x15')
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Saline
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10S 5E
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9
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NE NE SW
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| Air shaft (8'x12')
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Saline
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10S 5E
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9
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SW[1]
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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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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[3]
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Secondary source
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| State archive, PB_296_01
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4-18-1968
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1:12000
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1:12000
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Secondary source
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Annotated Bibliography (Data source - brief description of information)
| Coal Reports - Production, ownership, years of operation, shaft sizes, mining method.
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| Directory of Illinois Coal Mines (Saline County) - Mine names, mine index, ownership, years of operation.
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| Mine notes (Saline County) - Mine type, shaft location, seam.
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| ISGS field notes (Saline County) - Shaft location, depth, thickness.
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| State archive, PB_296_01 - General area of mining.
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Mine Notes
Mine Images
 These files may not be true to scale and are not georgistered.
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Map Type:
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State Archive
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| Map ID:
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PB_296_01
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| Company:
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| Mine Name:
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| Caption:
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| Map Date:
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04-18-1968
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| Map Status:
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Secondary
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| Image Credit:
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| Note:
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| More Info:
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M3317
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| Full Res Download:These files are true to scale and most are georegistered for gis software. These files may be a very large (>1GB) download!
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https://go.illinois.edu/ILMImages/saline/m3317.zip
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Photographs
Notes
- ↑ Not shown on accompanying map because of the lack of an adequate source map for this mine. The 1908 Coal Report described the air shaft.
- ↑ Shown on the source map as Davis Coal Company.
- ↑ Point plotted onto 1:24,000 USGS quadrangle and digitized.
