Mine Index Number: 5942
| Company Name:
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Eureka Coal Company
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| Mine Name:
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Eureka No. 2 Mine
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| Start Date:
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1872
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End Date:
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1883
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| Type of Mine:
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Underground
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| Total acres shown:
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None Included with Eureka No. 1 Mine (mine index 5943)
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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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Will
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32N 9E
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7
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NW SW SE
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Geology
| Colchester
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100-125
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3.0
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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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| Eureka Coal Company
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Eureka No. 2 Mine
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1872-1883
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unknown Production for this mine could not be separated from that of Eureka Coal Company No. 1 (mine index 5943). See mine index 5943 for production and years of operation. Production before July, 1881 is unknown. The 1882 Coal Report indicated 40 acres had been mined.
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Production Notes
Coal Report production (if available)
Sources of Data
| Atlas of Will County
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1873
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1:31680
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1:31680
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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, seam, depth, thickness, mining method.
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| Directory of Illinois Coal Mines (Will County) - Mine names, mine index, ownership, years of operation, seam.
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| Atlas Map of Will County, Illinois, compiled & published by Thompson Brothers & Burr, Elgin, Illinois, 1873 - Shaft location & identification.
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| The Wilmington Advocate, 1878 - Opening year.
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