Mine Index 3783 Western Brick Company, Western Brick No. 2 Mine

Mine Index Number: 3783

Company Name:	Western Brick Company
Mine Name:	Western Brick No. 2 Mine
Start Date:	1939	End Date:	August 8, 1940
Type of Mine:	Surface
Total acres shown:	188
Acres after map date:		General Area of mining acres shown:
The Western Brick Property mines show a total of 188 acres surface-mined and 174 acres underground-mined on Danville SE and Danville SW Quadrangles. These pits are named 3788 on the Danville SW Quadrangle and 3710 on the Danville SE Quadrangle. The production of the mines is not recorded so that tonnage can be reliably split between surface and underground mines to correspond to the area shown, thus the area shown is larger than would be expected for the tonnage recorded. Western Brick Company leased their coal lands to other operators, and some of the unlocated mines reported in Vermilion Couty probably mined Western Brick lands.

Shaft, Slope, Drift or Tipple Location(s)

Type	County	Township-Range	Section	Part Section

Tipple

Vermilion

19N 12W

11

SE SE SE

Geology

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

Danville

18-20

6.0

Surface

Production

Company

Mine Name

Date

Production (tons)

Western Brick Company (add)	Western Brick (add)	1939-1940	11,066
Total Production: 11,066

Production Notes

Coal Report production (if available)

Sources of Data

Source Map

Map Date

Original Scale

Digitized Scale

Map Type

Company, 4103.V4 i5.1-52

8-9-1940

1:480

1:480

Final The two small pits shown on this map accompany the tipple listed above. The pits are encompassed within a much large pit of Lee Coal Company (mine index 0889).

Annotated Bibliography (Data source - brief description of information)

Coal Reports - Production, ownership, years of operation.

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

Mine notes (Vermilion County) - Mine type, mine location, seam, depth, thickness.

Company map, ISGS map library, 4103.V4 i5.1-52 - Mine outline, tipple location, mining method.