Donk Coal Mines Madison County , Illinois The legal description lists this as : Madison County - Township 3 North, Range 8 West, Section 22, NW SW NW A slope mine at a depth of 133 feet with an average coal seam of 6 - 7 feet thick. Mine Name Operarted By Years Donk Mine No. 1 Donk Brothers Coal & Coke Company 1900 - 1921 [Source - No. 1, Index 344] Last production reported was January 31, 1921 - Abandoned on April 27, 1922 Annual Coal Report11 New Mines in Contemplation The Donke Bros. Coal & Coke Co., Belleville, St. Clair county, has started to sink a shaft. The size is 9 x 18 feet in the clear. It is the intention to equip it with all the modern and latest improved machinery, steel top works and electric mining machines, and to place their coal in the market over their own railroad. The shaft is located nearly two miles west of Collinsville, Madison county. Annual Coal Report12 New Mines It was mentioned in the report of this district last year that Donk Bros. Coal and Coke Company, of Belleville, had commenced operating a shaft near Collinsville, Madison county. The size of this shaft is 9 x 18 feet, and the depth 135 feet to the top of the coal. It is divided into three compartments as follows: Seven feet ten inches by nine feet being the size of the two main compartments, and a third compartment which is nine feet by fifteen inches. The height of the tipple from the ground to the center of the sheaves is fifty-six feet. For hoisting and handling the coal a first class pair of Litchfield engines is used, 18 x 32 inches, with a seven foot drum. The cages are self-dumping, of the Bond type. The shaker screen makes three grades of coal -- lump, nut, pea or slack, and a track is used for the refuse. The power consists of six seventy-two inch by twenty foot boilers, having eighteen six-inch flues, erected in three batteries. The pumps required are Hooker No. 10 and Cameron No. 12. The electrical equipment, which is first class in every particular, consists of a St. Louis Corlis engine 10 x 36 inches, running at a speed of eighty revolutions per minute, belted to a 100 K. W. link belt, a multipolar generator, being 400 amperes at 250 volts; a switchboard of double marble slabs, and all arrangements tor instruments for a duplicate power unit. At present there are four mining machines of different types; a Link-Belt, Morgan-Gardner, Jeffrey and Sullivan. The Sullivan is the most successful where the roof is bad, as it requires less room at the face, and the cutting made by it is only five feet deep, while the others cut seven feet. The escapement shaft is 8 x 16 feet, in two compartments, a good substantial stairway is built in one, and the other is used for ventilation. The fan is 20feet in diameter, driven by an engine 14 x 18 inches. The quantity of air found passing per minute was 65,000 cubic feet, the speed of the fan being fifty revolutions per minute. The buildings are all built of pressed brick, and in such manner as to give the works a handsome appearance, the intention being to make the mine and top works the best in the State. The same company has extended its railroad track to Troy, in Madison county, and commenced operations near that place. The main and escapement shafts have been sunk, and it is intended to equip them after the manner described at the Collinsville mine. The company has commenced to sink the third shaft about two miles south of Troy. These shafts will make the company one of the largest producers of coal in southern Illinois.
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