Mine Index 3694 Consolidated Coal Company of St. Louis, Ellsworth No. 4 Mine

Mine Index Number: 3694

Company Name:	Consolidated Coal Company of St. Louis
Mine Name:	Ellsworth No. 4 Mine
Start Date:	1872	End Date:	1898
Type of Mine:	Underground
Total acres shown:	228
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

Vermilion

19N 11W

19

NW NE NE

Air shaft Connected underground to Ellsworth No. 2 Mine (mine index 3688)

Vermilion

19N 11W

18

SW SE SE

Pump shaft

Vermilion

19N 11W

18

NW SE SW

Pump shaft

Vermilion

19N 11W

18

SE NW SE

Geology

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

Danville

70-85

5.5-6.0

MRP

Seelyville The shaft was sunk 310 feet to the Seelyville Coal, but that seam was thin and was abandoned in the first year of operation.

310

3.67

Geological Problems Reported

The mine was abandoned due to a large amount of water and sediment in the mine, the result of an excessively wet spring. No source map for this mining has been found. Since much less than an acre was mined, the maps that accompany this directory do not include a map of the Seelyville coal.

Production

Company

Mine Name

Date

Production (tons)

Ellsworth Coal Company (add)	Ellsworth No. 4 (add)	1872-1886	47,940 Production prior to 1884 unknown; 1882-4 production included in production for Ellsworth No. 1 (mine index 3691)

Consolidated Coal Company of St. Louis (add)	Ellsworth No. 4 (add)	1888-1898	1,358,542

Total Production: 1,406,482

Production Notes

Coal Report production (if available)

Sources of Data

Source Map

Map Date

Original Scale

Digitized Scale

Map Type

Microfilm, document 352903

1888

1:6000

1:6000

Not final The mined area shown on the accompanying map is the approximate size expected for the production reported. This suggests that the mine outline is complete.

Microfilm, document 352943

5-7-1903

1:1200

1:2069

Incomplete The mined area shown on the accompanying map is the approximate size expected for the production reported. This suggests that the mine outline is complete.

Annotated Bibliography (Data source - brief description of information)

Coal Reports - Production, ownership, years of operation, seam, depth, thickness, geologic problems.

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

Mine notes (Vermilion County) - Mine type, shaft location.

Microfilm map, document 352903, reel 03141, frame 40 - Shaft locations, mine outline.

Microfilm map, document 352943, reel 03141, frame 84 - Mining method.

History of Vermilion County, Illinois, by Lottie E. Jones, 1911 - Years of operation.