Carrier Mills High School - Reminiscence Yearbook (Carrier Mills, IL)

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4 , The ground was broken for the foundation in September and mn the early part of February we moved into our new home. A half day vacation was declared and the faculty and students transported nearly all of the equipment by hand from the old building. X , ' This building is a credit to the town and community which supports it. It has nine light and spacious class- rooms, a study hall, library, office and rest rooms, all well equipped. Much credit is due the patrons, board of education, pupils and teachers whose untiring efforts have made it possible. The building, beautiful and proud, stands as a monument to all who helped in any way to overcome obstacles to its erection. lt grew out of a dream. No longer is it a vision and I, the writer of this article, am happy to see that dream now appear a reality.

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COAL MINING IN SOUTHERN ILLINOIS Bituminous coal, which is the world's greatest fuel, is found in great abundance in Southern Illinois. ' The Bolesville and the Saline mines in Gallatin County are two of the oldest mines in the southern part of Illi- nois. They date back before the Civil War. The coal was hauled on wagons to the river and shipped down the river on barges. One of the first shipping mines in Southern Illinois was the St. John Slope near Duquoin operated by Captain Halliday of Cairo. This was the beginning of the town called Hallidaysboro. The people of the town named their little village after Captain Halliday. There were several mines in Equality about thisltime. One was called nDogwalk' and was run by Temple and FCassdl. Another shaft in Equality was called the Westside. During the flood of 1915 the Jackwater rushed into the mines and compressed the air and the mine blew up. In 1907 Saline County was in the tenth mining district of Illinois. The' other counties in the district were Gallatin, Jackson, Johnson, and Williamson. At that time there were ninety-nine mines in this district. By 1914 the mining districts had been changed. Saline County was then in the eleventh district. Then there were only three more counties in the district--Gallatin, Frank- lin, and White. In the district then were sixty-one mines, thirty-nine of which were shipping mines and twenty-two of which were used for local trade. Powder had by this time come into extensive use. There were 57,978 Kegs of powder. used for blasting coal in the sixty-one mines of the eleventh district. Also, by 1914 there were about eight tons of coal mined by machine to one by hand. There were only thirty-four people killed this one year in the eleventh district. Since then the number of mines has not increased 'very rapidly but the number of employees has. The Lone Star,' the only active mine in Carrier Mills was sunk in 1912 by D. M. MacDonald, G. G. Moore, Ira Will- more, and A. C. Baker. There have been only three more mines in Carrier Mills and they have been long discontin- ued. 'The mining is rapidly becoming of the strip mining type, and the Sahara mine known as Bankston Creek Colleries is one of the largest mines of its type in the world.