History of Springfield, Illinois, its attractions as a home and advantages for business, manufacturing, etc. Pub. under the auspices of the Springfield board of trade, by J. C. Power.

ITS ADVANTAGES FOR MANUFACTURING. 49 STARNE & SHUTT 8 MINE- WEST END involved an outlay of nearly sixty thouSHAFT. sand dollars. Hon. Alexander Starne and G.W. * Hon. Alexander Starne and G. W. This mine being yet new, has not room Shutt, Esq., under the firm name of' Shutt, Esq., under the firm name offor a great number of miners to work, Starne & Shutt, broke ground June 0 fo Sheputt rpoe go June sixty-five being the most that has at any 17, 1870, for the purpose of sinking a one time been engaged. They now keep coal shaft. The site is at the north side thirty steadily at work, and take out of the northwestern extension, of theand o from two to three thousand bushels, or Pana and Southeastern Railroad, and is from to from eighty to one hundred and twenty one and three-eighth miles west of the tons per day old State House. It is, therefore, very properly called the "West End Shaft." Their steam engine, hoisting apparaFrom fifteen to twenty men were kept tus, and-all the other machinery and apsteadily at work, fro;m the commence- pliances are equal to either of the other shafts, and when business justifies, they ment until the 1Oth of September, when they reached a stratum of coal fve feet could double the quantity of coal prothey reached a stratum of coal five feet ten inches thick, at a depth of 153 feet. duced. The coal is the same as that mined in the Messrs. Starne & Shutt have one hunother shafts in this vicinity, but the dif- dred and ten acres of land connected ference in depth is all on the surface. with their coal shaft, and in addition to This mine commences in a valley where its value for mining has some splendid the surface is from seventy-five to one situations for manufacturing establishhundred feet lower than at the north or ments. The facilities for natural drainsouth shaft. The cost of sinking the age could not be better. Parties comshaft was about twenty thousand dollars, ing to Springfield for the purpose of but the other improvements in the way seeking a location for almost any kind of of buildings for the mines and miners, a manufacturing establishment could not grading and improving the grounds, has do better than by calling upon them.

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History of Springfield, Illinois, its attractions as a home and advantages for business, manufacturing, etc. Pub. under the auspices of the Springfield board of trade, by J. C. Power.
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Power, John Carroll, 1819-1894.
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Springfield,: Illinois state journal print,
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Springfield (Ill.)

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