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98 percent of the coke produced was used in blast furnaces. About 3.4 million
tons of coal was carbonized at Illinois coke plants, of which 38 percent
came from Illinois and 60 percent came from Kentucky and West Virginia, combined.

 Producing plants recovered about 177,000 tons of coke breeze valued at nearly

$1.4 million, representing a 17-percent decrease in quantity and a 16-percent
decrease in value from 1966. Other products of coke-oven plants included
coke-oven gas, tar, ammonia, crude light oil, and light-oil derivatives.

 Peat.—Peat was produced by five companies in Cook, Lake, and Whiteside
Counties. Sales increased 12 percent in quantity and over 23 percent in value.

Humus was sold in bulk form, while moss and reed-sedge peat were sold in
bulk and packaged form. Nearly 87 percent of all sales were in packaged form.
Nearly all the peat was used for general soil conditioners; a small amount
was used for packing flowers and shrubs. 
 
 Petroleum, Natural Gas, and Natural Gas Liquids.—Crude petroleum production
declined 3 percent, while value decreased over 2 percent from 1966 levels.
The value of crude petroleum provided over 28 percent of the total State
mineral output value, down from 30 percent in 1966. Water-flood oil production
accounted for 72 percent of the total petroleum output. 
 
Table 7.—Crude petroleum productiop, by counties 
(Thousand 42-gallon barrels and 
thousand dollars) 
 
 
c t 
~ ~ 
1966 
Quantity' Value 2 
1967 
Quantity' 
Value 2 
Adams                                           
4 $11 
2 
$5 
B.ond                                            
 134 403 
108 
327 
Brown                                           
3 10 
3 
9 
Champaign                                       
Christian                                         
Clark 3                                                                 
       
 3 8 712 2,135 724 2,173 
2 
532 
700 
 6 
1,606 
2,114 
Clay                                            
Clinton                                          
Coles                                            
Crawford                                         
Cumberland                                      
De Witt                                         
 2,842 8,525 951 2,854 708 2,124 3,469 10,406 
 (3) (3) 
 283 848 
3,045 
923 
556 
3,164 
(3) 
240 
9,197 
2,787 
1,678 
9,557 
(3) 
726 
Douglas                                          
Edgar                                           
Edwards                                         
Effingham                                        
Fayette                                          
Franklin                                         
Gallatin                                          
Hamilton                                         
Hancock                                         
 95 286 63 190 980 2,941 426 1,278 8,917 26,751 1,449 4,346 887 2,662 4,321
12,963 35 106 
92 
90 
878 
598 
7,512 
1,650 
973 
5,573 
39 
279 
272 
2,652 
1,805 
22,692 
4,984 
2,938 
16,833 
117 
Jasper                                           
Jefferson                                         
Lawrence                                         
McDonough                                      
Macon                                           
 1,694 5,081 1,337 4,012 7,024 21,072 
 (3) (3) 
 18 54 
1,446 
1,607 
6,774 
(3) 
11 
4,366 
4,854 
20,462 
(3) 
 34 
Macoupin                                        
Madison                                         
 4 11 249 748 
3 
216 
10 
652 
Marion                                          
Montgomery                                      
Moultrie                                         
 5,477 16,432 1 3 6 18 
4,847 
 1 
 7 
14,640 
3 
20 
Perry                                            
Randolph                                        
Richiand                                         
Saline                                           
Sangamon                                        
Shelby                                          
Wabash                                          
Washington                                       
Wayne                                          
White                                           
Williamson                                       
 24 72 103 309 2,128 6,384 1,001 3,004 167 501 65 196 2,779 8,336 567 1,701
6,032 18,096 6,188 18,564 30 89 
27 
109 
1,908 
1,105 
115 
52 
2,633 
532 
5,620 
6,224 
43 
 82 
 328 
5,763 
3,338 
 346 
 158 
7,953 
1,606 
16,976 
18,799 
 129 
Unassigned production                              
 80 241 
159 
480 
Total 4  
 61,982 185,947 
60,115 
181,581 
 1 Source: Illinois Geological Survey. 
 2 County values calculated by using State average value per barrel; $3.00
for 1966 and $3.02 for 1967. 
 ' Production of Cumberland County included with Clark County, and McDonough
County with Hancock County because actual source of production cannot be
identified. 
 Data may not add to totals shown because of independent rounding.