Mine Index 3338 Cosmo Coal Corporation, Cosmo Mine

Mine Index Number: 3338

Company Name:	Cosmo Coal Corporation
Mine Name:	Cosmo Mine
Start Date:	1923	End Date:	1941
Type of Mine:	Underground
Total acres shown:	23
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 shaft

Sangamon

14N 7W

18

SW SE NW

Air shaft

Sangamon

14N 7W

18

NE SE NW

Geology

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

Herrin

175

4.75

Underground

Production

Company

Mine Name

Date

Production (tons)

Reynolds Coal Company (add)	Reynolds (add)	1923-1928	17,009

Glen Lebeter and J. Reynolds Company (add)	Lebeter and Reynolds (add)	1929-1929F	3,844

J. S. Williamson (add)	Williamson (add)	1930-1934	30,584

Cosmo Coal Corporation (add)	Cosmo (add)	1935-1941	37,512

Total Production: 88,949

Production Notes

Coal Report production (if available)

Sources of Data

Source Map

Map Date

Original Scale

Digitized Scale

Map Type

Microfilm, document 351251

6-12-1941

1:1200

1:2235

Final

Microfilm, document 351215

8-27-1927

1:600

1:745

Not final

Annotated Bibliography (Data source - brief description of information)

Coal Reports - Production, ownership, years of operation.

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

Mine notes (Sangamon County) - Mine type, shaft location, seam, depth, thickness.

Microfilm map, document 351251, reel 03134, frame 504 - Shaft locations, mine outline (western), mining method.

Microfilm map, document 351215, reel 03134, frame 407 - Shaft location (eastern), mine outline (eastern).