Coal mining in Illinois . llion dollars, the coal mining industrymust be regarded as one of the most important industries inthe State and its economic status is of vital interest. With a desire to be informed about the degree of safetyto the miners and the efficiency of mining methods the Forty-seventh General Assembly of the State of Illinois authorizedan investigation of the coal resources and mining practices ofIllinois by the Department of Mining Engineering of theUniversity of Illinois and the State (Geological Survey inco-operation with the United States Bureau of Mines. Eachco-operating
Coal mining in Illinois . llion dollars, the coal mining industrymust be regarded as one of the most important industries inthe State and its economic status is of vital interest. With a desire to be informed about the degree of safetyto the miners and the efficiency of mining methods the Forty-seventh General Assembly of the State of Illinois authorizedan investigation of the coal resources and mining practices ofIllinois by the Department of Mining Engineering of theUniversity of Illinois and the State (Geological Survey inco-operation with the United States Bureau of Mines. Eachco-operating party to the agreement furnished trained special-ists for particular phases of the investigations and the work,begun in 1911, lias been continued under annual ratificationsof the initial agreement. A general survey of the State hasbeen made by districts and several special problems have beenstudied in detail and the data thus obtained have been pub-lished in bulletins issued from time to time as the work prog-ressed. (7). THE CENTRAL PORTION OF JOLlETs MAP, 1674, SHOWING THE MISSISSIPPI AS THE BAUDE. Fig. 1. Copy of Joliets map made in 1674 (From A History of the Miseisippi Valley, by Spears and Clark) INTRODUCTION V That the work of the Illinois Coal Mining Investigationsis answering to a real need is shown by the hundreds of re-quests for bulletins which have come from many foreign coun-tries, from every State in this country, and from all parts ofIllinois. The object of this bulletin is to abstract and summarizethe district reports so as to compare mining practice in thedifferent districts and to make generalizations on the practiceof the State as a whole. The need for such a summary bulle-tin is emphasized by the many requests for earlier districtreports which are now out of print. In order to make the bulletin more valuable to those in-terested in coal mining in Illinois an historical chapter on theeconomic development of the industry has been included anda bibliography o
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