Mine Index 3637 Lake Erie Mining Company, Lake Erie Mine

Mine Index Number: 3637

Company Name:	Lake Erie Mining Company
Mine Name:	Lake Erie Mine
Start Date:	1899	End Date:	February 1939
Type of Mine:	Underground
Total acres shown:	980
Acres after map date:		General Area of mining acres shown:

Shaft, Slope, Drift or Tipple Location(s)

Type	County	Township-Range	Section	Part Section

Old slope

Tazewell

25N 4W

6

NW NEThe top row of sections in T25N-R4W is about 2,000 feet longer in the north-south direction than a regular one-mile section. Traditionally, the points are oriented from the southeast corner of the section (see page 6). This slope is outside the square mile grid. Its approximate location (generated from the accompanying map) is 1100 FNL, 2000 FEL.

Air shaft

Tazewell

25N 4W

6

NE NW NE

Air shaft

Tazewell

25N 4W

5

SW SE NW

Air shaft

Tazewell

25N 4W

8

SW NW NE

Geology

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

Springfield

265

4.33

RPP

Production

Company

Mine Name

Date

Production (tons)

Progressive Coal Company (add)	Progressive (add)	1899-1902	41,000

Lake Erie Coal and Mining Company (add)	Lake Erie (add)	1902-1905	58,220

Carters Coal and Mining Company The title block for the 1908-1911 microfilm map, document 352868, reel 03140, frames 495 & 496, states “Rushce Mine (New Carters) Coal Mine”. The unlocated mines at the back of this report (East Peoria group) includes a Rushce Mine that operated 1878-1889. The 10-year gap between the opening date above and the closing date of Rusche is the major factor that prevents combining the two production histories. (add)	Carters (add)	1905-1906	14,532

Lake Erie Coal and Mining Company (add)	Carters (add)	1906-1908	28,487

A. B. Cumming (add)	Lake Erie (add)	1908-1909	21,885

Cumming Brothers and Company (add)	Lake Erie (add)	1909-1910	9,600

Lake Erie Coal and Mining Company (add)	Lake Erie (add)	1910-1917	118,956

Maplewood Sales Company (add)	Maplewood No. 1 (add)	1917-1919	122,206

Lake Erie Mining Company (add)	Lake Erie (add)	1919-1939	3,028,242

Total Production: 3,443,128

Production Notes

Coal Report production (if available)

Sources of Data

Source Map

Map Date

Original Scale

Digitized Scale

Map Type

Microfilm, document 352860

2-19-1939

1:2400

1:4634

Final

Microfilm, document 352748

7-20-1915

1:2400

1:3972

Not final

Annotated Bibliography (Data source - brief description of information)

Coal Reports - Production, ownership, years of operation.

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

Mine notes (Tazewell County) - Mine type, slope location, seam, depth, thickness.

Microfilm map, document 352860, reel 03140, frames 484-487 - Slope/shaft locations, mine outline, mining method.

Microfilm map, document 352849, reel 03140, frame 466 - Mine outline (northern, western).