Mine Index 7609 Kirksville Coal Company, Kirksville Mine

Mine Index Number: 7609

Company Name:	Kirksville Coal Company
Mine Name:	Kirksville Mine
Start Date:	1903	End Date:	1904
Type of Mine:	Underground
Total acres shown:	None
Acres after map date:		General Area of mining acres shown:

Shaft, Slope, Drift or Tipple Location(s)

Type	County	Township-Range	Section	Part Section

Main shaft

Moultrie

13N 5E

20

S ½ The shaft location is very uncertain. The Coal Report described the location as “one mile south of the village or Kirksville” and “about half a mile” from the older mine. The shaft location may be up to ½ mile north and 3/8 (or more) of a mile east or west of the location as shown on the accompanying map.

Geology

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

Shelbyville

100 to 150

Production

Company

Mine Name

Date

Production (tons)

Kirksville Coal Company (add)	Kirksville (add)	1903-1904	None The shaft was sunk to a depth of at least 100 feet. No production was recorded in the Coal Reports (1904, 1905 or later). Presumably the shaft was not completed and entries were not driven. On June 28, 1904, two men working on the shaft were killed as the hook suspending the bucket used for lowering them gave way. Construction of the shaft may have ended with the fatalities or may have continued later. The “Prospective Mines” segment of the Coal Report (1904, p. 261) considered the outcome of the prospecting venture to be “problematical”. Whether the uncertainty of the outcome was based on the fatal accident or the economic prognosis for a mine at that location in generally thin coal is not known.

Production Notes

Coal Report production (if available)

Sources of Data

Source Map

Map Date

Original Scale

Digitized Scale

Map Type

Coal Report

1904

(text only)

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

Secondary source

Annotated Bibliography (Data source - brief description of information)

Coal Reports - Production, ownership, years of operation, mine location.

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