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Duquoin -- What is said to be the largest mine tipple in the world is being constructed over the main shaft of the new mine of the Union
Colliery Co.. of St. Louis, at the new town of Dowel], five miles south of here. Coal is already being mined and sent to St. Louis for the use of the Union Electric
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Colliery was opened north of Dowell in January 1946. It was named the New Kathleen. This mine closed in 1947., Land scars are still visible from this mine.
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Kathleen was sunk in 1917 and the mine opened in 1918. It was named for Kathleen McAuliffe who was the daughter of Eugene McAuliffe, the president of the colliery company.
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Kathleen Mine at Dowell, Ill. Where the Clean, Clinkerless
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