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Identifier: illinoisasitisi00gerh (find matches)
Title: Illinois as it is; its history, geography, statistics, constitution, laws, government, finances, climate, soil, plants, animals, state of health, prairies, agriculture, cattle breeding, orcharding, cultivation of the grape, timber-growing, market-prices, lands and land prices, geology, mining, commerce, banks, railroads, public institutions, newspapers, etc., with a prairie and wood map, a geological map, a population map, and other illustrations
Year: 1857 (1850s)
Authors: Gerhard, Frederick
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Publisher: Chicago, Keen
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
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GEOLOGY AND MINING. 88J of the Chicago branch of the Illinois Central Eailroady as well as theChicago market. The Northern Coal Mining and Transportation Company, is thename of a new association, lately formed at La Salle; their coal bedsare adjacent to the lands of the La Salle Coal Mining Company; theyare about to commence operations by sinking a shaft on the line ofthe Central Railroad, about half a mile further north. The mines in the vicinity of Morris, in Grundy County, are yield-iuG a lar;e amount of coal. The Kingston Coal Mines are situated in Peoria County, and thelands of that region consist of about 1180 acres. The depth at whichthe coal lies varies, the surface being very uneven. Its greatest depthis seventy-five feet, while in other places, even where it has beenworked, it is no more than ten. It lies 108 feet above the river level.It is divided into two unequal parts by the intervention of a thinstratum of plastic clay. There are also extensive and valuable mines on the

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