Mine Index 3349 Number Twelve Coal Company, No. 12 Mine

Mine Index Number: 3349

Company Name:	Number Twelve Coal Company
Mine Name:	No. 12 Mine
Start Date:	1909	End Date:	1941
Type of Mine:	Underground
Total acres shown:	141
Acres after map date:		General Area of mining acres shown:

Shaft, Slope, Drift or Tipple Location(s)

Type	County	Township-Range	Section	Part Section

Shaft

Sangamon

16N 5W

20

SE NE SE

Air / escape shaft

Sangamon

16N 5W

20

SE NE SE

Geology

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

Springfield

180

6.0

RPP

Production

Company	Mine Name	Date	Production (tons)

Number Twelve Coal Company (add)	Number Twelve (add)	1909-1920	236,730

Joseph Taylor (add)	No. 12 (add)	1920-1922	63,928

Number 12 Coal Company (add)	No. 12 (add)	1922-1923	25,000

Joseph Taylor Coal Company (add)	No. 12 (add)	1923-1927	93,071

Number 12 Coal Company (add)	No. 12 (add)	1928-1928	23,650

Joseph Taylor (add)	No. 12 (add)	1929-1932	103,697

Number Twelve Coal Company (add)	No. 12 (add)	1933-1941	207,967

Total Production: 754,043

Production Notes

Coal Report production (if available)

Sources of Data

Source Map

Map Date

Original Scale

Digitized Scale

Map Type

Microfilm, document 351224

2-29-1934

1:1200

1:2317

Not final

Microfilm, document 351203

4-1948

1:2400

1:3972

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.

ENR Document 85/01 - Mining method.

Mine notes (Sangamon County) - Seam, depth, thickness.

Microfilm map, document 351203, reel 03134, frames 371-371 (Panther Creek No. 2, Mine index 3350) - Mine outline.

Microfilm map, document 351224, reel 03134, frames 432-433 - Shaft locations.