Mine Index 7103 Payne and Henderson, Payne and Henderson Mine

Mine Index Number: 7103

Company Name:	Payne and Henderson
Mine Name:	Payne and Henderson Mine
Start Date:	1868	End Date:	1883
Type of Mine:	Underground
Total acres shown:	None
Production Indicated Acres:	1	General Area of mining acres shown:

Shaft, Slope, Drift or Tipple Location(s)

Type	County	Township-Range	Section	Part Section

Shaft

Vermilion

19N 12W

27

NW SE SW

Geology

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

Danville

70-72

5.5-6.0

RP

Production

Company

Mine Name

Date

Production (tons)

Charles Gones (add)	Gones (add)	circa 1868-1870	Unknown The mine was reported in Beckwith’s History of Vermilion County as opening some time after another mine opened in 1865. The 1875 Atlas showed the mine owner as Charles Goings. The year the mine was leased by James Payne and the tonnages produced before July 1881 are unknown.

James Payne (add)	Payne (add)	circa 1870-1881	Unknown The mine was reported in Beckwith’s History of Vermilion County as opening some time after another mine opened in 1865. The 1875 Atlas showed the mine owner as Charles Goings. The year the mine was leased by James Payne and the tonnages produced before July 1881 are unknown.

Payne and Henderson (add)	Payne and Henderson (add)	1881-1883	5,500

Total Production: 5,500

Production Notes

Coal Report production (if available)

Sources of Data

Source Map

Map Date

Original Scale

Digitized Scale

Map Type

Illustrated Atlas of Vermilion County

1875

1:31680

1:24000 The mine location was plotted on a 1:24000 USGS topographic map from the mine location illustration and digitized.

Secondary source

Annotated Bibliography (Data source - brief description of information)

Coal Reports - Production, ownership, years of operation, mine type, depth, thickness, mining method.

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

Illustrated Historical Atlas of Vermilion County, Illinois, published by W. R. Brink & Co., Illinois,1875 - Mine location.

H. W. Beckwith, 1879, History of Vermilion County, Illinois - Mine ownership, years of operation (before 1881).