Mine Index 5223 Canton Union Coal Company, Canton Mine

Mine Index Number: 5223

Company Name:	Canton Union Coal Company
Mine Name:	Canton Mine
Start Date:	Pre 1881	End Date:	1906
Type of Mine:	Underground
Total acres shown:	24
Production Indicated Acres:	160 Mining may have extended west (mine index 5222), east (mine index 5224), north (mine index 2203 and 2252), or south (mine index 3574 and 4859).	General Area of mining acres shown:

Shaft, Slope, Drift or Tipple Location(s)

Type	County	Township-Range	Section	Part Section

Main shaft

Fulton

7N 4E

33

SW NE SW

Geology

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

Springfield

40-85

4.0-5.0

RP

Production

Company

Mine Name

Date

Production (tons)

Canton Coal Company (add)	Old Shaft (add)	pre1881-1882	24,544

A. Heald (add)	Heald (add)	1882-1894	315,631

Canton Union Coal Company (add)	Canton (add)	1894-1906	303,401

Total Production: 643,576

Production Notes

Coal Report production (if available)

Sources of Data

Source Map

Map Date

Original Scale

Digitized Scale

Map Type

Plat Book of Fulton County, Illinois

1895

1:48000

1:48000

Secondary source

Federal Land Bank Report

4-20-1933

1:124800

1:124800

Secondary source

Annotated Bibliography (Data source - brief description of information)

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

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

George A. Ogle & Co., Plat Book of Fulton County, Illinois (1895) - Shaft location.

Federal Land Bank Report (Fulton County) - Mine outline.