Mine Index 6808 Hawley Coal Company, Hawley Mine

Mine Index Number: 6808

Company Name:	Hawley Coal Company
Mine Name:	Hawley Mine
Start Date:	Pre 1873	End Date:	1896
Type of Mine:	Underground
Total acres shown:	6
Acres after map date:	42	General Area of mining acres shown:

Shaft, Slope, Drift or Tipple Location(s)

Type	County	Township-Range	Section	Part Section

Main shaft

Tazewell

24N 5W

23

NE SE

Geology

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

Springfield

75-85

4.0-4.5

RP

Production

Company

Mine Name

Date

Production (tons)

Norman C. Hawley (add)	Hawley (add)	pre-1873-1887	70,780Production and years of operation prior to July 1878 and July 1879 to June 1881 are unknown. The 1873 plat and atlas of Tazewell County showed Hawley’s mine, indicating that it was a substantial operation by 1873.

Pekin Coal and Mining Company (add)	Pekin (add)	1887-1889	14,821

Newsam and Lowery (add)	Newsam and Lowery (add)	1889-1890	5,798

Frank Lowery (add)	Lowery (add)	1890-1892	25,518

William Randle (add)	Randle (add)	1892-1894	24,258

Hawley Co-operative Coal Company (add)	Hawley (add)	1894-1895	12,804

Hawley Coal Company (add)	Hawley (add)	1895-1896	9,810

Total Production: 163,789

Production Notes

Coal Report production (if available)

Sources of Data

Source Map

Map Date

Original Scale

Digitized Scale

Map Type

Atlas Map of Tazewell County

1873

1:42240

1:42240

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 (Tazewell County) - Mine names, mine index, ownership, years of operation.

Andreas, A. T., 1873, Atlas Map of Tazewell County, Illinois: Davenport, Iowa, Andreas, Lyter & Co., 165p. - Mine location.