Table 6.—Shipments of bituminous coal for consumption in Illinois,
by district of origin 
and consumer use 
(Thousand short tons) 
THE MINERAL INDUSTRY OF ILLINOIS 
281 
 
 
 
Year and use 
2 3 and 6 
 
Distric 
t of origin 1 
  — 10    11 
Total 
 
4 
7 and 8 
9 
 
 
1963: 
 
 
 
 
 
Electric utilities                    Coke and gas plants               
     
 
2 
1,997 
2,898 
  
 17,670 354 801        
20,924 
2,798 
Retail dealers 2 33 
5 
1,463 
1,258 
 2,316 211 
5,288 
 All others 1 40 
 Total 3 73 
 
1964: 
 
435 
390 
 8,513 697 
10,076 
 
5 
3,897 
4,546 
 29,300 1,262 
39,086 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Electric utilities                        
Cokeand gas plants                    
Retail dealers 45 
- 
- 
4 
35 
2,387 
1,295 
2,852 
  
1,093 
 19,706 402 
922          
 2,203 169 
22,995 
3,309 
4,809 
 All others 41 Total  86 1965: 
2 
588 
424 
 8,565 733 
10,353 
 
6 
4,305 
4,369 
 31,396 1,304 
41,466 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Electricutilitjes                                  
 
 
2,670 
 22,115 395 
25,180 
 Coke and gas plants 19 Retail dealers 34 All others 101 
 Total 154 
 
1966: 
15 
~ 
2,419 
1,305 
695 
1,116 
420 
1,170          
 1,959 129 8,903 891 
3,608 
4,558 
11,010 
 
15 
4,419 
4,206 
34,1471,415 
44,356 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Electricutilities                                  
 
 
2,198 
 25,058 552 
27,808 
Cokeandgasplants                     
 
2,113 
 
1,513          
3,626 
Retail dealers 8 
13 
1,364 
930 
 1,889 59 
4,263 
 All others 55 Total  63 1967: 
 
740 
256 
 9,113 521 
10,685 
 
13 
4,217 
3,384 
 37,573 1,132 
46,382 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Electric utilities                         
 
17 
2,121 
 26,825 534 
29,497 
Cokeandgasplants' 110Retail dealers 5All others 52 
12 
~ 
1,871 
1,342 
553 
847 
182 
1,468          
 1,831 37 8,386 517 
3,449 
4,074 
9,690 
Total 167 
12 
3,783 
3,150 
 38,510 1,088 
46,710 
1 States or portion of States represented by each district are as follows:
District 2, western Pennsylvania; 
3 and 6, northern West Virginia; 4, Ohio; 7 and 8, eastern Kentucky, southwestern
Virginia, southern West Virginia, and north-central Tennessee; 9, western
Kentucky; 10, Illinois; 11, Indiana. 
 
draglines, and wheel excavators. Nearly 81 percent of the total production
was cleaned by the 45 cleaning plants that operated during the year. 
 Nine companies and their subsidiaries each produced over 1 million tons
in 1967, accounting for over 96 percent of the State production. Those companies
were Ayrshire Collieries Corp., Bell & Zoller Coal Co., Freeman Coal
Mining Corp., Old Ben Coal Corp., Peabody Coal Co., Sahara Coal Co., Inc.,
Truax-Traer Coal Division (Consolidation Coal Co., Inc.), Southwestern Illinois
Coal Corp., and The United Electric Coal Cos. The Captain strip mine in Perry
County, owned by the Southwestern Illinois Coal Corp., ranked first in the
Nation in production. The No. 10 underground mine in Christian County, owned

by Peabody Coal Co. ranked second in production, but was the largest underground
mine. Peabody's River King strip mine in St. Clair County was the Nation's
fourth largest producer and the second largest strip mine. 
 Shaft sinking operations were begun by Freeman Coal Mining Corp., a subsidiary
of General Dynamics Corp., at its 3-million-ton-per-year Orient No. 6 mine
in Jefferson County. Production was expected to begin late in 1968. 
 
 Coke.—Almost 2.4 million tons of coke, valued at over $47.7 million,
was produced at six plants. This represented a decrease of about 8 percent,
both in quantity and value compared with 1966. Consumption of coke by producing
companies decreased about 5 percent to 2.4 million tons. Nearly