Mine Index 3352 Springfield Coal and Mining Company, Springfield No. 3 Mine

Mine Index Number: 3352

Company Name:	Springfield Coal and Mining Company
Mine Name:	Springfield No. 3 Mine
Start Date:	1881	End Date:	1911
Type of Mine:	Underground
Total acres shown:	517
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

24

SW SE NW

Geology

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

Springfield

256

6.6

MRP

Production

Company

Mine Name

Date

Production (tons)

Sangamon Coal Company (add)	Starnes (add)	pre1881-1889	212,829 The years of operation and production before 1881 are not known. The 1882 Coal Report indicated 30 acres were mined. The production from 1883 to 1885 was reported under Sangamon No. 2 Mine (mine index 807).

Welsh, Starn and Company (add)	Starnes (add)	1889-1890	55,795

Starnes Coal Mining Company (add)	Starnes (add)	1890-1902	1,192,965

Springfield Coal and Mining Company (add)	Springfield No. 3 (add)	1902-1911	998,293

Total Production: 2,459,882

Production Notes

Coal Report production (if available)

Sources of Data

Source Map

Map Date

Original Scale

Digitized Scale

Map Type

Bauer, et al. map

4-1982

1:24000

1:37680

Secondary source

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) - Mine type, shaft location, depth, thickness, ownership.

Bauer et al., General Outlines of Mined-Out Areas of Springfield (No. 5) Coal, Springfield & Vicinity, 1973, revised 1982 - Mine outline.

Federal Land Bank of St. Louis, Preliminary Report on Subsidence Investigation, Sangamon County, Illinois, February 9, 1934, J. C. Quade, Mining Engineer - Verification of mine outline.