Mine Index 4416 Tamaroa Colliery Company, Tamaroa Mine

Mine Index Number: 4416

Company Name:	Tamaroa Colliery Company
Mine Name:	Tamaroa Mine
Start Date:	Pre 1872	End Date:	1901
Type of Mine:	Underground
Total acres shown:	Noneproduction indicates approximately 45 acres were mined in addition to the area mined before July 1881. The general area of mining on the accompanying map shows the most likely approximate area where the mining took place.
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

Perry

4S 1W

32

NE SE NW

Geology

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

Herrin

240

5.0-6.5

RP

Production

Company

Mine Name

Date

Production (tons)

Cox and Company (add)	Cox (add)	pre1872-1883Production and years of operation before 1881 are not known. The 1882 Coal Report indicates 10 acres were mined.	29,060

Tamaroa Coal Company (add)	Tamaroa (add)	1883-1886	44,910

P. White and Cox Coal Company (add)	White and Cox (add)	1886-1888	27,800

E. C. Cuhl (add)	Cox (add)	1888-1892	39,600

T. L. Stockton (add)	Stockton (add)	1892-1895	29,500

Tamaroa Colliery Company (add)	Tamaroa (add)	1895-1898	33,380

Tamaroa Co-operative Coal Company (add)	Tamaroa (add)	1898-1900	19,000

Tamaroa Colliery Company (add)	Tamaroa (add)	1900-1901	100

Total Production: 223,350

Production Notes

Coal Report production (if available)

Sources of Data

Source Map

Map Date

Original Scale

Digitized Scale

Map Type

WPA, T4S-R1W

circa 1934

1:53923

1:53923

Secondary source

Federal Land Bank Report

10-1934

1:126720

1:126720

Secondary source

Microfilm, document 352158

10-1-1872

UnknownThe map has no scale, no locational data (township, range, and section) and no land surface features to register the mine details with a topographic map. The map was too poor to use, except for the date. In 1872, the mine extended 850 feet west of the shaft, 500 feet north of the shaft. The areas south and east of the shaft have no measurements.

Not digitizedThe map has no scale, no locational data (township, range, and section) and no land surface features to register the mine details with a topographic map. The map was too poor to use, except for the date. In 1872, the mine extended 850 feet west of the shaft, 500 feet north of the shaft. The areas south and east of the shaft have no measurements.

Not final

Annotated Bibliography (Data source - brief description of information)

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

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

Mine notes (Perry County) - Mine type, shaft location, seam.

WPA map, T4S-R1W - Shaft location.

Federal Land Bank Report - General area of mining.

Microfilm map, document 352158, reel 03138, frame 188 - Mine shape, mining method.