Mine Index 7815 Alphonse Vermeulen, Vermeulen Mine

Mine Index Number: 7815

Company Name:	Alphonse Vermeulen
Mine Name:	Vermeulen Mine
Start Date:	circa 1923	End Date:	Unknown
Type of Mine:	Underground
Total acres shown:	Less than 1
Acres after map date:		General Area of mining acres shown:
The mine’s location was based on the road and the source map indicating that the 40 acres where the mine was located was owned by George Sprague. A 1908 plat book shows NE NE & SE NE 27-T16N-R6E was owned by George Sprague. The “public highway to Sheffield” in the northern part of the map locates the mine N-S very well, but there is little in the E-W direction to accurately place the mine. The positional accuracy of shafts and the mine outline are therefore poor, and cannot be located more accurately than the 40-acre quarter of Section 27.

Shaft, Slope, Drift or Tipple Location(s)

Type	County	Township-Range	Section	Part Section

Shaft

Bureau

16N 6E

27

NE NE The mine’s location was based on the road and the source map indicating that the 40 acres where the mine was located was owned by George Sprague. A 1908 plat book shows NE NE & SE NE 27-T16N-R6E was owned by George Sprague. The “public highway to Sheffield” in the northern part of the map locates the mine N-S very well, but there is little in the E-W direction to accurately place the mine. The positional accuracy of shafts and the mine outline are therefore poor, and cannot be located more accurately than the 40-acre quarter of Section 27.

Air shaft

Bureau

16N 6E

27

NE NE

Geology

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

Herrin

MRP

Production

Company

Mine Name

Date

Production (tons)

Alphonse Vermeulen (add)	Vermeulen (add)	circa 1923	Unknown The Coal Reports listed Alphonse Vermeulen only once per year from 1919-1925. The production has been included with mine index 2033, as there are mine notes of a visit to the mine in that location where ISGS personnel had spoken to Mr. Vermeulen. It is just as likely that the production listed for mine index 2033 rightly goes to this mine, and it is possible that the production included both mines.

Production Notes

Coal Report production (if available)

Sources of Data

Source Map

Map Date

Original Scale

Digitized Scale

Map Type

Microfilm, document 351375

6-17-1923

1:1200

1:1200

Not final

Annotated Bibliography (Data source - brief description of information)

Microfilm map, document 351375, reel 03135, frame 413 - Shaft locations, mine outline, mining method.

Federal Land Bank Report (Bureau County) - General mine location.