Mine Index Number: 5660
| Company Name:
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La Salle Coal Mining Company
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| Mine Name:
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Kentucky Mine
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| Start Date:
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1856
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End Date:
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1879
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| Type of Mine:
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Underground
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| Total acres shown:
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1,274The area shown includes the La Salle Mine (mine index 3), the Rockwell Mine (mine index 238) and the Kentucky Mine. According to W. T. Bedford in the Twentieth Anniversary Souvenir Edition; The La Salle Tribune 1891-1922, the Rockwell Shaft and the Kentucky Shaft were merged in 1867.
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| Acres after 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 shaft
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La Salle
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33N 1E
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11
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NW SE SW
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Geology
| Colchester
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LW (old longwall)
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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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| James Cowey
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Kentucky
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1856-ca. 1860
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unknownAll production from this mine was before the publication of the Coal Reports and is unknown. The reserves of this mine were incorporated with the Rockwell Mine (mine index 238).
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| Northern Illinois Coal and Iron Company
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Kentucky
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ca. 1860-1868
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unknownAll production from this mine was before the publication of the Coal Reports and is unknown. The reserves of this mine were incorporated with the Rockwell Mine (mine index 238).
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| La Salle Coal Mining Company
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Kentucky
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1868-1879
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unknownAll production from this mine was before the publication of the Coal Reports and is unknown. The reserves of this mine were incorporated with the Rockwell Mine (mine index 238).
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Production Notes
Coal Report production (if available)
Sources of Data
| ISGS map library, 4103.L32 i5.1-5
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3-30-1936
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1:2400
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1:2400
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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.
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| Directory of Illinois Coal Mines (La Salle County) - Mine names, mine index, ownership, years of operation.
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| Mine notes (La Salle County) - Years of operation, mine location.
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| - Bedford, Willam T., 1911, Twentieth Anniversary Souvenir Edition; The La Salle Tribune 1891-1911, printed & published at LaSalle, Illinois , re-published by LaSalle County Genealogy Guild, 1996, 206p. - Ownership, years of operation.
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| ISGS map library, 4103.L32 i5.1-5, map of Matthiessen & Hegeler Mine (mine index 231) - Shaft location.
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Mine Notes
Mine Images
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