Mine Index 5585 Mrs. Smidt, Smidt Mine

Mine Index Number: 5585

Company Name:	Mrs. Smidt
Mine Name:	Smidt Mine
Start Date:	1855	End Date:	1882
Type of Mine:	Underground
Total acres shown:	None
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

Madison

4N 8W

3

NW SW SE718 feet east and 190 feet north of Bartlett Mine shaft (mine index 6473). The shaft was 25 feet in diameter. Information from Robert Gibson (AML-OMM), personal communication, 4-24-2003.

Geology

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

Herrin

96

5.0

Underground

Production

Company

Mine Name

Date

Production (tons)

Henry Ritter (add)	Ritter (add)	1855-1870	UnknownProduction prior to 1881 unknown; no production reported in 1882 under this name. May be the same as the mine of unknown location listed at the back of this report under “R. Smith”.

Mrs. Smidt (add)	Smidt (add)	1870-1875	UnknownProduction prior to 1881 unknown; no production reported in 1882 under this name. May be the same as the mine of unknown location listed at the back of this report under “R. Smith”.

Production Notes

Coal Report production (if available)

Sources of Data

Source Map

Map Date

Original Scale

Digitized Scale

Map Type

History of Madison County

1882

(text only) The mine location was plotted on a 1:24000 USGS topographic map from the mine location description and digitized.

1:24000

Secondary source

Annotated Bibliography (Data source - brief description of information)

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

History of Madison County, Illinois; Published by W. R. Brink & Co., Edwardsville, Illinois, 1882 - Mine location (general), ownership.

Robert Gibson, IDNR, personal communication, 3-10-2003 & 4-24-2003 - Shaft location (GPS), dates of operation from Edwardsville Intelligencer, 12-22-1870 edition.

718 feet east and 190 feet north of Bartlett Mine shaft (mine index 6473). The shaft was 25 feet in diameter. Information from Robert Gibson (IDNR), personal communication, 4-24-2003.