Mine Index 4088 Petersburg Coal Company, Petersburg No. 1 Mine

Mine Index Number: 4088

Company Name:	Petersburg Coal Company
Mine Name:	Petersburg No. 1 Mine
Start Date:	1870	End Date:	1888
Type of Mine:	Underground
Total acres shown:	119
Acres after map date:	12	General Area of mining acres shown:

Shaft, Slope, Drift or Tipple Location(s)

Type	County	Township-Range	Section	Part Section

Main shaft

Menard

18N 7W

1

SE SE SW

Escape shaft

Menard

18N 7W

1

SE SE SW

Air shaft

Menard

18N 7W

12

NE NW NW

Geology

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

Springfield

65-99

5.0-8.0

MRP

Geological Problems Reported

The mine was very difficult to work, with many horsebacks and a poor roof. Heavy timbering was required to keep the haulage routes open.

Production

Company

Mine Name

Date

Production (tons)

T. F. Lanning (add)	Lanning (add)	ca. 1870-1882 The 1882 Coal Report indicated 15 acres were mined. The 1885 Coal Report indicated that the mine had been in operation for about 15 years and the workings were very extended.	9,500

Petersburg Coal Company (add)	Petersburg No. 1(North Shaft) (add)	1882-1886	137,250

Petersburg Coal Company (add)	Petersburg No. 1(North Shaft) (add)	1886-1888	58,000 Production after map date

Total Production: 204,750

Production Notes

Coal Report production (if available)

Sources of Data

Source Map

Map Date

Original Scale

Digitized Scale

Map Type

Atlas of Menard County

1874

1:31680

1:31680

Secondary source

Company, MSHA_1391

6-26-1886

1:1440

1:1440

Not final

Annotated Bibliography (Data source - brief description of information)

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

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

Atlas of Menard County, 1874, published by George A. Ogle & Co., Chicago, Illinois - Mine location.

Company map, state archive, MSHA_1391 - Shaft locations, mine outline, mining method.