Mine Index 3363 Springfield Salisbury Coal Company, Springfield Salisbury Mine

Mine Index Number: 3363

Company Name:	Springfield Salisbury Coal Company
Mine Name:	Springfield Salisbury Mine
Start Date:	1905	End Date:	1947
Type of Mine:	Underground
Total acres shown:
Production Indicated Acres:	20	General Area of mining acres shown:	27

Shaft, Slope, Drift or Tipple Location(s)

Type	County	Township-Range	Section	Part Section

Main shaft

Sangamon

17N 6W

32

SE NW NE

Geology

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

Springfield

95-144

5.5-5.83

RP

Production

Company

Mine Name

Date

Production (tons)

Cronister and Davis (add)	Cronister and Davis (add)	1905-1910	7,189

A. S. Cronister (add)	Cronister (add)	1910-1911	1,700

H. C. Brandt (add)	Brandt (add)	1911-1914	4,542

Dabney and Jackson (add)	Dabney and Jackson (add)	1914-1916	1,757

Watkins and Dabney (add)	Watkins and Dabney (add)	1916-1917	1,775

Davis and Dabney (add)	Davis and Dabney (add)	1917-1922 Mines producing less than 10,000 tons were not reported in 1922.	7,029

Tony Enders (add)	Enders (add)	1922-1923	2,770

Ditmer and Holmberg (add)	Ditmer and Holmberg (add)	1923-1924	90

Salisbury Coal Company (add)	Salisbury (add)	1924-1925	2,550

Jones and Meredith (add)	Jones and Meredith (add)	1926-1926	490

Scott Davis (add)	Davis (add)	1927-1933 Idle 1928 and 1929; produced less than 1,000 tons per year from 1930 to 1933 and was not listed in the Coal Reports	497

Springfield Salisbury Coal Company (add)	Springfield Salisbury (add)	1934-1940	41,821

Salisbury Coal Company (add)	Salisbury (add)	1941-1942	14,880

Springfield Salisbury Coal Company (add)	Springfield Salisbury (add)	1942-1943	2,788

Wilson Brothers (add)	Wilson (add)	1943-1943	3,638

Springfield Salisbury Coal Company (add)	Springfield Salisbury (add)	1944-1947	2,036

Total Production: 95,552

Production Notes

Coal Report production (if available)

Sources of Data

Source Map

Map Date

Original Scale

Digitized Scale

Map Type

Federal Land Bank Report

2-1934

1:158400

1:158400

Secondary source

Microfilm, document 351235

8-1-1938

1:2400

1:2979

Not final

Annotated Bibliography (Data source - brief description of information)

Coal Reports - Production, ownership, years of operation, mining method.

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.

Federal Land Bank Report (Sangamon County) - Mine outline.

Microfilm map, document 351235, reel 03134, frame 472 (map of Tony Ender’s mine, mine index 3362) - Shaft location.