Mine Index Number: 5605
| Company Name:
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Perry and Company
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| Mine Name:
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Perry Mine
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| Start Date:
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Pre 1875
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End Date:
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1884
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| Type of Mine:
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Underground
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| Total acres shown:
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36
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| Production Indicated Acres:
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34 acres were mined after the map date.
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General Area of mining acres shown:
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Shaft, Slope, Drift or Tipple Location(s)
| Type
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County
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Township-Range
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Section
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Part Section
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| Main drift
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Henry
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17N 1E
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22
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SW NE NW
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| Air shaft
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Henry
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17N 1E
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22
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SE NW NW
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| Shaft
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Henry
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17N 1E
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22
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SW NE NW
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| Shaft
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Henry
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17N 1E
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22
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SE NW NW
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| Shaft
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Henry
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17N 1E
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22
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SW NW NW
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| Slope
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Henry
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17N 1E
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22
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NE SW NW
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Geology
Geological Problems Reported
Production
| Company
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Mine Name
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Date
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Production (tons)
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| Perry and Company The source map showed an area on the western side of the mine labeled “Old Minersville Works”. Whether that is a separate mine or an older name for Perry’s mine is not known.
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Perry
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pre1875-1884 The 1884 Coal Report indicated 20 acres were mined. The mine was closed because of a depression in the coal trade. Production and years of operation before 1881 are not known.
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122,400 Production after map date
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| Total Production: 122,400 Production after map date
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Production Notes
The source map shows an east-west trending fault north of the main drift entrance to the mine. Horsebacks and basins filled with a conglomerate of clay and pyrite nodules were common, some several yards wide.
Coal Report production (if available)
Sources of Data
| Atlas of Henry County
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1875
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1:31680
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1:31680
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Secondary source
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| Company, IL_1979_01
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3-1879
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1:600
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1:600
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Not final
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| ISGS field notes (H. E. Culver)
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1922-1924
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1:15840
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1:15840
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Secondary source
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Annotated Bibliography (Data source - brief description of information)
| Coal Reports - Production, ownership, years of operation, mine type, seam, depth, thickness, mining method.
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| Directory of Illinois Coal Mines (Henry County) - Mine names, mine index, ownership, years of operation.
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| Mine notes (Henry County) - Mine type, shaft location, seam, depth, thickness.
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| Company map, Coal Section files, IL_1979_01, digital map from State Archives, courtesy of Robert Gibson, DNR- Drift and shaft locations, mine outline, mining method, geologic problems.
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| ISGS field notes (Henry County) - Slope location.
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| Worthen, A. H., 1882, Economical Geology of Illinois, Volume III - Geologic problems.
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Mine Notes
Mine Images
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