Colorado

Geology Resources - Colorado

• Colorado State Geological Survey (Below are only a few of the many resources available on the Colorado State Geological Survey web site.)

  • Colorado Mineral Resources  (The “Mineral Resources” section includes the following subjects:  General, What are Minerals?, Abandoned Mine Lands, Gemstones, Image Gallery, Industrial Minerals, Maps, Metallic Minerals, Need for Minerals, Mineral Collecting, and Personnel.)

    • Abandoned Mine Land

  • Colorado Yule Marble Quarry

    • Yule Marble

    • Laccoliths

  • Industrial Minerals  (The “Industrial Minerals” section includes the following subjects:  Aggregate, Dimension Stone, Image Gallery, Map, and Publications.)

    • Aggregates

    • Dimension Stone

    • Maps

    • Colorado Geology  (This section includes the following subjects:  19th Century Geology, Folian Geology, Fossils, Glacial Geology, Igneous Rocks, Image Gallery, Landforms, Links, Metamorphic Rocks, Meteorites, Sedimentary Rocks, Statewide Maps, Structures, Timescale, and Topography.)
    • Field Trips
    • The Geology Along The Trails West of the NCAR, by the Colorado Scientific Society. (Includes photographs and a map which includes the Lyons Sandstone and a nearby quarry in Lyons Sandstone.) [PDF]

      (From the web site) “This guide is essentially a ‘geologic treasure hunt’ where you find features of geologic interest along the trails west of the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) in Boulder, Colorado. Using this guide, you will see many of the features that geologists study and use to interpret the geologic history of the Rocky Mountains. You will see various kinds of sedimentary rocks, see how these rocks control landforms, see fossils associated with these rocks, and observe changing environments over geologic time. As you follow this tour, you will be walking through time across older and older rocks.”

    • History of Mining Districts in Colorado
    • A Location Guide for Rockhounds, (PDF) Collected by Robert C. Beste, PG, St. Louis, Missouri: Hobbitt Press, 2nd ed., December 1996, 148 pp. (Includes chapters on “Mineral Locations by State,” “Appendix and Glossary,” and “Bibliography.”)
    • Publications
    • RockTalk “is a newsletter published by the Colorado Geological Survey dealing with all aspects of geology throughout the state of Colorado.”  Back issues are available on the web site, and you can sign up to learn about new issues.
    • Teacher Resources
  • Colorado State Minerals Information (USGS)
  • Adams State College – Department of Biology and Earth Sciences, Alamosa, Colorado.
  • Colorado College – Department of Geology, Colorado Springs, Colorado.

  • Colorado Mineral Fact Sheets, U.S. Geological Survey

  • Colorado Rockhounding Map on minedat.org

  • Colorado School of Mines, Golden, Colorado.
  • Colorado State University – Warner College of Natural Resources – Natural Resources, Fort Collins, Colorado.
  • Colorado’s Official State Rock - Yule Marble, web site presented by Netstate. (photographs, history, & resources)
  • Fort Lewis College – Geology, Durango, Colorado.
  • Geologic Story of the Great Plains, by D.E. Trimble, A nontechnicaldescription of the origin and evolution of the landscape of the Great Plains, Geological Survey Bulletin 1493, United States Government Printing Office, Washington, 980.
  • Mesa State College – Geology Department, Grand Junction, Colorado.
  • Metropolitan State College of Denver-Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Denver, Colorado.
  • Mineral and Fossil Museums, Exhibits, & Displays in the United States - Colorado
  • National Geologic Map Database, presented by the United States Geologic Survey.

  • “Rainbow of Rocks:  Mysteries of Sandstone Colors and concretions in Colorado Plateau Canyon Country,” by Marjorie A. Chan and William T. Parry, Public Information Series 77, Utah Geological Survey.

  • University of Northern Colorado: Earth Sciences

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  Research Resources - Colorado

  • Archives
    • Archival Research Catalog, U. S. National Archives & Records Administration (NARA)
    • Colorado State Archives
      • Colorado State Archives – History FAQs
      • General Resources & Collection Descriptions
      • Historic Mine Report Files Index c.1900 – 1980 at the Colorado State Archives
      • Tourism Collection
        • Historic Postcard Collection
      • Work(s) Progress Administration Photograph Collection at the Colorado State Archives
    • Library of Congress Digitized American Memory Collection
    • Library of Congress Online Map Collections, American Memory.
    • National Archives and Records Administration – Rocky Mountain Region, Denver, Colorado.
    • National Geologic Map Database, presented by the United States Geologic Survey.
    • National Union Catalog of Manuscript Collections (NUCMC) Listing of Archives and Manuscript Repositories in Colorado.
    • Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection
    • Repositories of Primary Sources – Colorado
    • The Russell L. & Lyn Wood Mining History Archive, Arthur Lakes Library, Colorado School of Mines.
    • U. S. National Archives & Records Management (NARA)
  • Historical Sources
    • Aberdeen Granite Quarry Records in the Lois Borland Collection, Western State College of Colorado
    • American Folklife Center - The Library of Congress' repository for American folk music and folklore and folklife collections.
    • American Life Histories - Manuscripts from WPA Writers’ Project (1936-1940), Library of Congress - American Memory.
    • American Local History Network - Colorado (genealogy and history)
    • American Memory - the Library of Congress' gateway to primary source materials relating to the history and culture of the United States. “ Mission : American Memory provides free and open access through the Internet to written and spoken words, sound recordings, still and moving images, prints, maps, and sheet music that document the American experience. It is a digital record of American history and creativity. These materials, from the collections of the Library of Congress and other institutions, chronicle historical events, people, places, and ideas that continue to shape America, serving the public as a resource for education and lifelong learning.”
    • Ancient Voices - Stories of Colorado’s Distant Past - Colorado Historical Society (PDF - 2004 Exhibit)
    • Architecture of the United States, presented on Wikipedia.
    • Aspen Historical Society – Tours of Aspen, Colorado
    • Bessemer Historical Society, Pueblo, Colorado.

    • Brief History of Marble, Colorado, presented by Marble Crystal River Chamber.

    • Center of Southwest Studies at Fort Lewis College, Durango, Colorado.
      • Research at the Center of Southwest Studies
    • Colorado - COGenWeb Archives
    • Colorado Buildings, Structures, & Architects on the Philadelphia Architects & Buildings Project (PAB) web site. You can search the database for buildings, structures, and architects either as a visitor or you can register free. You cannot search for specific cities, but you can search for county locations. There are no photographs presented, but the location and/or address and the name of the architect are included if known; and the historic registration information is also included.
    • Colorado Central Magazine
    • Colorado College – Historic Walking Tour
    • Colorado Historical Society, Denver, Colorado
    • Colorado State Archives
      • Colorado State Archives - History FAQs
      • General Resources & Collection Descriptions
      • Historic Mine Report Files Index c.1900 – 1980 at the Colorado State Archives
      • Tourism Collection
        • Historic Postcard Collection
      • Work(s) Progress Administration Photograph Collection at the Colorado State Archives
    • Colorado State Register Properties Directory, presented by the Colorado Office of Archaelogy and Historic Preservation.
    • Colorado Office of Archaeology and Historic Preservation - Colorado Historical Society
    • Colorado’s Historic Sites, presented by the Colorado Historical Society.
    • Courthouses Recorded by Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS) and the Historic American Engineering Record (HAER)
    • Denver HO Model Railroad Club (located in the lower level of the Colorado Railroad Museum)
    • Douglas County History Research Center, presented by Douglas County Libraries, Douglas County, Colorado.
    • Ghost Towns of Colorado
    • Google Book Search: You can use Google Book Search to search for specific subjects in thousands of books available through the Google Book Search - both books under copyright and in the public domain. Hundreds of books are added regularly, so check back if you do not find books on the subject for which you are seeking information.
    • Historic Colorado Mines and Mining Museums Open to the Public, (in PDF format), by the Office of Archeology and Historic Preservation, Colorado Historical Society.
    • Historic Federal Buildings, by Phineas E. Paist and Harold D. (View by State or Architect)
    • Historical Construction Equipment Association
    • History of the American West, 1860-1920: Photographs from the Collection of the Denver Public Library.
    • History Online, presented by the Institute of Historical Research, University of London
    • Library of Congress Digitized American Memory Collection
      • Library of Congress Learning Page for Digitized Collections
    • Linkpendium - Colorado
    • Making of America (MOA) “Making of America (MOA) is a digital library of primary sources in American social history from the antebellum period through reconstruction.”
    • Marble Historical Society, 412 Main Street, Marble, Colorado (Telephone: (970) 963-1710)

    • Marble History, presented on the Williams House web site.
      

    • NARA's Rocky Mountain Region (Denver) (Research resources of retired records from Federal agencies and courts in Colorado, Montana, New Mexico, North Dakota, South Dakota, Utah, and Wyoming.)
    • The National Parks Service - Links to the Past - People - Places - Objects & Events: “Explore America 's cultural resources - buildings, landscapes, archeological sites, ethnographic resources, objects and documents, structures and districts.”
    • National Register - Online Travel Itineraries in the United States
    • The Nineteenth Century in Print: The Making of America in Books and Periodicals. A distributed digital library collaboration at the Cornell University Library - Library of Congress - American Memories.
    • Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection
    • Pueblo County Historical Society & Museum, Pueblo, Colorado.
    • Resources for Historians - The History Guide, presented by Steven Kreis.
    • Southeastern Colorado Heritage Center, Pueblo, Colorado.
  • Libraries
    • Colorado Historical Society - Stephen H. Hart Library
    • Denver Public Library (Below are just a few of the many resources available on this web site.)
      • Western History Department / Genealogy Department
    • Colorado State Library
    • Douglas County Libraries, Douglas County, Colorado.
    • LibDex - The Library Index - Colorado
    • Library of Congress Digitized American Memory Collection
      • Library of Congress Learning Page for Digitized Collections
    • National Archive (NARA) Rocky Mountain Region (Denver, Colorado) (Research resources of retired records)
    • William Ross Moore Mining History Library - Ouray County Historical Society and Museum, Ouray, Colorado. The William Ross Moore Mining History Library of the American West Collection is located at the Ouray County Historical Society's Museum.
  • Museums
    • Adams County Historical Society and Museum, Brighton, Colorado.
    • Anasazi Heritage Center, Dolores, Colorado.
    • Animas Museum, Durango, Colorado, presented by the La Plata County Historical Society.
    • Aurora History Museum, Aurora, Colorado.
    • Black American West Museum & Heritage Center, 3091 California Street, Denver, Colorado 80205; (303) 292-2566. The small museum is housed in the former home of Colorado’s first African American female doctor Dr. Justina Ford. The museum tells the story of the African American pioneers.
    • Boulder History Museum, Boulder, Colorado.
    • Clear Creek Mining and Milling Museum, 23rd Avenue and Riverside Drive, Idaho Springs, Colorado, 303-567-2421.
    • Colorado Museums, presented by Great Museums.
    • Colorado Railroad Museum
      • Denver HO Model Railroad Club (located in the lower level of the Colorado Railroad Museum)
    • Colorado School of Mines Geology Museum, Department of Geology and Geological Engineering, currently in Berthoud Hall, SM campus. (303) 273-3823.
    • Colorado Springs Pioneers Museum, Colorado Springs, Colorado.
      • Collections
    • Creed Underground Mining Museum (and tour), Creede, Colorado.
    • Cripple Creek District Museum, Cripple Creek, Colorado. (gold rush history)
    • Denver Museum of Nature and Science, Denver, Colorado.
    • Edgar Mine (tour), Colorado School of Mines Experimental Mine, Idaho Springs, Colorado.
    • El Pueblo History Museum, Pueblo, Colorado.
    • Estes Park Area Museum, Estes Park, Colorado.
    • Forney Transportation Museum, Denver, Colorado.
    • Fort Carson - the Mountain Post Historical Center Museum, El Paso County, Colorado.
    • Fort Collins Museum, Fort Collins, Colorado. The mission of the museum is to: “The Fort Collins Museum is dedicated to engaging and inspiring our audiences to explore the legacies of the peoples and environments of the Cache La Poudre River Valley....”
    • Fort Morgan Museum, Fort Morgan, Colorado.
    • Four Mile Historic Park, Denver, Colorado. “On the banks of Cherry Creek, just four miles from downtown Denver, Four Mile Historic Park is a 12 acre oasis featuring Denver’s oldest standing structure, pioneer exhibits, special events for all ages, and guided tours that transport visitors to Colorado’s frontier past.”
    • Geology Museum at the Colorado School of Mines, Golden, Colorado.
    • Gilpin County Historical Society and Museum, Central City, Colorado.
    • Golden History Museums, Golden, Colorado.
    • Golden Pioneer Museum, Golden, Colorado.
    • The Heritage Museum, Leadville, Colorado.
    • Koshare Indian Museum, La Junta, Colorado.
    • Lafayette Miners' Museum, Lafayette, Colorado. 1087 E. Simpson Street, Lafayette, CO 80026; (313) 665-7030.
    • Longmont Museum and Cultural Center
    • Loveland Museum/Gallery, Loveland, Colorado.
    • Lowell Thomas Museum (See the "Victor-Lowell Thomas Museum" below.)
    • Lyons Redstone Museum and Lyons Historical Society (Scroll down to entry.)
    • MacGregor Ranch, Estes Park, Colorado.
    • Marble Historical Society and Museum, 412 Main Street, Marble, CO 81623; 970-963-3035 Marble Tourism Association.
    • May Natural History Museum and Space Exploration Wing, John May Museum Center, Colorado Springs, Colorado.

    • Mineral and Fossil Museums, Exhibits, & Displays in the United States - Colorado

    • The Molly Brown House Museum, Denver, Colorado.
    • Museum of Colorado Prisons, Cañon City, Colorado.
    • Museum of Northwest Colorado, Craig, Colorado.
    • Museum of Western Colorado, Grand Junction, Colorado.
    • National Mining Hall of Fame and Museum, Leadville, Colorado.
    • Nederland Historical Society and Museum, 4th and Bridge Streets, Nederland, Boulder County, Colorado; (313) 285-3575.
    • Old Colorado City History Center, Colorado Springs, Colorado. “Located in historic downtown Golden, Colorado, the Astor House Museum and Clear Creek History Park offer a unique look back in time of Colorado life in the late 1800s.”
    • Ouray County Historical Society and Museum, Ouray, Colorado. The William Ross Moore Mining History Library of the American West Collection is located at the Ouray County Historical Society's Museum.
    • Pueblo County Historical Society & Museum, Pueblo, Colorado.
    • Pueblo Railway Museum, Pueblo, Colorado.
    • Rockledge Ranch Living History Museum, Colorado Springs Area, Colorado, presented on the Colorado Directory web site.
    • Rosemount Museum (located in the 37-room Thatcher family mansion built in 1893), Pueblo, Colorado.
    • Salida Museum, Salida, Colorado; (719) 539-2311 and 539-4602.
    • Southern Ute Museum, Ignacio, Colorado.
    • Stallard House and Museum Annex, Aspen Historical Society, Aspen, Colorado.
    • Trinidad History Museum, Trinidad, Colorado, presented by the Colorado Historical Society.
    • University of Colorado, Museum of Natural History, Boulder, Colorado.
    • Victor-Lowell Thomas Museum, at Victor Avenue and Third Street, Victor, Colorado; 689-5509 during museum hours, or 689-4044.
    • Walsenburg Mining Museum, 101 E. 5th Street, Walsenburg, Colorado; (719) 738-1992.
    • Western Museum of Mining & Industry, Colorado Springs, Colorado.
    • Women of the West Virtual Museum
  • Other
    • 1872 County Map of Colorado
    • 1895 U.S. Atlas - Colorado
    • Colorado Almanac, presented by Netstate.com.
    • Colorado Scenic Byways, presented by the National Scenic Byways Program.
    • Cyndi's List - Online Research Resources - Colorado
    • Google - Local (Use Google’s Local Map, Satellite, and Hybrid - combination map and satellite image - views to view locations of your choice. Be sure to designate the location in the search field in the Google - Local window.)
    • Guide to 50 States – Colorado
    • National Geologic Map Database, presented by the United States Geologic Survey.
    • Repositories of Primary Sources - Colorado
    • Topographic Maps and Atlases
    • TopoZone "The TopoZone is the Web's center for recreational and professional topographic map users." (Includes a place name search form.)
    • Who Owns the West? - Who Owns Colorado, presented by the Environmental Working Group.
    • World Almanac for Kids Online – Colorado
    • WorldAtlas.com – Colorado
    • Yale Peabody Museum: GNIS – Search the USGS Geographic Names Database.

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  The following links are to photographs at the site of the History of the American West, 1860-1920: Photographs from the Collection of the Denver Public Library Western History/Genealogy Department, Denver Public Library.

  Copyright and Restrictions for the Denver Public Library Collection apply (for items below). Check this site for the Copyright and Restrictions made by the Denver Public Library, the owner of the original materials sited here.

  General Stone Quarry Photographs from the American Memories Collection.

  (For Yule Marble Quarry photographs, see section below this one.)

  The following links are from the American Memory Historical Collections for the National Digital Library, Library of Congress. By using their on-site search engine and using search words such as "quarry" or "quarries" plus "colorado," (Combining the two words is important as the collection covers locations outside of the state of Colorado.) I was able to find the following photographs. I was unable to retain the links that the search generated, so I have listed the photographs I found in the search using the above words so that you can use the Search to locate these same photographs. Peggy B.Perazzo

  • "A man stands near the main mining area of probably the Pikeview Quarry near Cascade, El Paso County, Colorado." (between 1890 and 1910)
  • "A miner poses on a pile of rocks near pneumatic tripod drills at a quarry possibly in Colorado. A piece of rock is ready to be hoisted by a crank with a lock snatch block nearby." (between 1890 and 1910)
  • "A miner poses with a miner's candle at the entryway to a stone quarry tunnel in Colorado." (between 1890 and 1910)
  • "A miner poses with a mallet and miner's candle in a stone quarry tunnel in Colorado." (between 1890 and 1910)
  • "A miner poses near a tramway probably at the Pikeview Quarry near Cascade, El Paso County, Colorado. Wheelbarrows are near the tracks." (between 1890 and 1910)
  • "A miner poses near probably the Peakview Quarry near Cascade, El Paso County, Colorado." (between 1890 and 1910)
  • "Crushed stone storage. View of a stone storage building at a quarry in Colorado." (between 1890 and 1910)
  • "Funicular to Strauss Marble Quarry. View of a funicular cable tram and ore car used to move marble between the Strauss Quarry and rail terminal, above Marble, Gunnison County, Colorado." (1912?)
  • "Granite(e) Mine (lower left) Portland Gold Mining Co. Shaft No. 2 (center horizon). View of the Granite Mine and tramway near Victor (Teller County), Colorado. A miner pushes a mine ore car on the tramway. The shafthouse of a Portland Mine is in the distance." (1895)
  • "Granite mine. View shows buildings of the Granite mine, Poverty Gulch, Teller County, Colorado." (between 1880 and 1910?)
  • Hauling marble 9300 ft above sea level - Marble, Colorado (1908 or 1909?)
  • "Main Street, Marble, Colo. Frame commercial buildings flank dirt street in Marble, Gunnison County, Colorado. One in the foreground has an exterior stairway; mountains are in the background." (between 1900 and 1908?)
  • "Miners pose near an ore car at the entrance to a stone quarry tunnel in Colorado."(between 1890 and 1910)
  • "Miners pose near a wagon loaded with marble slabs and guy derrick at the Kerr Stone Company marble quarry near Howard, Fremont County, Colorado. A quarry building and tent are nearby. Light snow covers the ground." (between 1890 and 1910)
  • "Miners pose near the Rawlins Grey Sandstone Quarry near Rawlins, Wyoming. One man poses on a slab of sandstone that is hoisted by a stiff leg derrick. A quarry building is nearby." (between 1890 and 1910)
  • "Miners pose near a building at the Kerr Stone Company quarry near Howard, Freemont County, Colorado. A rock slab that reads: "The Kerr Stone Co. PO Box 1027 Denver, Colo. 18.0 3.0 3.0" is near a pump." (between 1890 and 1910)
  • "Miners pose near the tramway and entrance to a stone quarry tunnel in Colorado." (between 1890 and 1910)
  • "Rawlins grey sandstone quarries: the Kerr Marble and Stone Company. Miners pose in a sandstone quarry near Rawlins, Wyoming. The machinery includes a stiff leg derrick with crane, tripod drill, and boiler on a rail track. A quarry building is nearby." (between 1890 and 1910)
  • "View from probably the Pikeview Quarry near Cascade, El Paso County, Colorado." (between 1890 and 1910)
  • "View of a stone mill and tramway near a stone quarry in Colorado Stone." (between 1890 and 1910)
  • "View of the end of a quarry tramway from probably the Pikeview Quarry near Cascade, El Paso County, Colorado. The tracks of the Midland Terminal Railway (MT) are nearby." (between 1890 and 1910)
  • "View of a tunnel entrance at probably the Pikeview Quarry near Cascade, El Paso County, Colorado. Light snow covers the ground." (between 1890 and 1910)
  • "View of the Kerr Stone Company marble quarry near Howard (Fremont County), Colorado. A portable fire box boiler is suspended by a hand powered guy derrick nearby." (between 1890 and 1910)
  • "View of the Kerr Stone Company marble quarry near Howard (Fremont County), Colorado. Hand powered guy derricks and a building are nearby. Light snow covers the ground." (between 1890 and 1910)
  • "View, from a distance, of a stone quarry operation in Colorado." (between 1890 and 1910)
  • "Miners work in the Kerr Stone Company marble quarry near Howard (Fremont County), Colorado. Hand powered guy derricks, a building, and water tank are nearby. Light snow covers the ground." (between 1890 and 1910)
  • "Miners work with pneumatic drills in a rock quarry, possibly in Colorado. A crane with a lock snatch block is prepared to hoist a piece of rock." (between 1890 and 1910)
  • "Stone quarry near Morrison, Colorado." Men in suspenders and hats pose near Morrison, Jefferson County, Colorado, at a stone quarry. A man holds reins of a horse pulling a scoop; piles of rock are nearby. Steep, stratified sandstone is in the background." (January 30, 1893.)
  • "Strauss Quarry, surface workings of the quarry at Marble, Colorado. View of Strauss Quarry shows a revolving derrick and a horizontal drilling machine fed by compressed air lines, near Marble, Gunnison County, Colorado." (1909)

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  Photographs Regarding Yule Marble Quarries
  (American Memories Collection)

  The following links are from the American Memory Historical Collections for the National Digital Library, Library of Congress. By using their on-site search engine and using search words such as "quarry" or "quarries" plus "colorado," (Combining the two words is important as the collection covers locations outside of the state of Colorado.) The following photographs are related to the Yule Marble quarries. You could add the search word "Yule" to narrow the search down to photographs related to these quarries. I found I was unable to retain the links that the search generated, so I have listed the photographs I found in the search using the above words so that you can use the Search to locate these same photographs. Peggy B. Perazzo

  • A core of solid statuary marble: 11 ft long, 2 3/4 in diameter, taken by diamond drill from a depth of 235 ft below the surface, showing the vastness of the deposit Quarries at Marble, Colo. (between 1910 and 1920?)
  • "At work in the quarry. Miners work with pneumatic drills on a rail track at a rock quarry near Marble, Gunnison County, Colorado." (between 1910 and 1930)
  • "Block of marble being loaded. View of a large block of marble being loaded onto a flatbed rail car, Marble (Gunnison County), Colorado." (1912)
  • "Building for storage of Colorado - Yule Marble Co's supplies for quarry, mill, etc: Marble, Colo., April. This storage building in Marble, Gunnison County, Colorado, is next to tracks of the Crystal River & San Juan Railroad. A cylindrical, wooden water tank is adjacent; the end of the structure is scaffolded. Tracks and snow are in the foreground, slopes are in the background." (1907)
  • "Circular saw at finishing mill of Colorado-Yule Marble Co. Marble, Colo. Men work in Marble, Gunnison County, Colorado, at the Colorado-Yule Marble Company finishing mill. Two squat on the sawtable by a block of stone, another operates levers. Interior wooden beams cross overhead by the circular sawblade; hoses, ropes and gears are in the background." (1913)
  • "Colo. Yule Marble Co. plant, Marble, Colo. Bird's eye view of Colorado Yule Company marble processing plant, Marble, Colorado; shows shipping and receiving area, Crystal River and San Juan Railroad siding and track by mill with box cars, caboose, and open flat cars; housing (wooden frame buildings) in Aspen grove on hillside; facility closed in 1941." 1913?
  • "Colo. Yule Marble Co. Quarries, Marble Colo. Interior view of a marble quarry at the Colorado-Yule Marble Company Quarries in Marble, Colorado; shows three channeling machines with channeling tracks on ledge and wooden timbers attached to a metal wheel (perhaps hoisting equipment)." (1913?)
  • "Colo. Yule Marble Co. quarries, Marble, Colo. Exterior view of mine buildings, adits, and quarries of Colorado Yule Marble Company, Marble, Colorado; large crane anchored by cables to quarry wall, mine tram tracks, wooden barrels atop roof, tram pulley system, wooden steps or ladder alongside quarry; marble scraps or refuse below wooden frame building; facility closed in 1941." (1913?)
  • "Colo. Yule Marble Co. quarries, Marble, Colo. View towards Colorado Yule Marble Company quarries from tramway below entrances, Marble, Colorado; wooden steps (stairway with railing) leads to upper adits and buildings; crane is anchored to quarry walls with pulley system below on tramway track; refuse or discard piles of marble are below wooden frame mine buildings; facility closed in 1941." (1913?)
  • "Colorado-Yule Marble finishing mill. Men work in Marble, Gunnison County, Colorado, at the Colorado - Yule Marble finishing plant. Wearing aprons, sweater and hats, they hold scrapers and sponges, and tend a block of stone supported by wooden beams. Windows line the upper interior walls of the shed, and others work in the background." (between 1908 and 1920?)
  • "Entrance Colo. Yule Marble Co. Quarries, Marble Colo. View of the entrance to the Colorado-Yule Marble Company Quarry located in Marble, Colorado; shows railroad track at center with flatcar, a standing man is dwarfed by a wooden boom, spools of cable labeled "Eschen." Wedges are driven into marble wall with propped wooden ladders." (1913?)
  • "Finishing of Cleveland Column. View of a marble column on a lathe in the Colorado-Yule Marble Company's mill near Marble, Gunnison County, Colorado." (between 1900 and 1910)
  • In the workshop, Colorado-Yule Marble Company, Marble, Colorado (between 1910 and 1917?)
  • "In the workshop, Colorado-Yule Marble Company, Marble, Colorado. work in Marble, Gunnison County, Colorado, in the Colorado - Yule Marble Company's mill "B". Carts of stone are on central tracks, flanked by worktables. The workers have buckets of water and handtools; lightbulbs hang from interior overhead beams, and a stove is to the side. Drive belts, pulleys and flywheels are in the background; signs read: "No Admittance Apply at Office," and "No Smoking." (between 1910 and 1917?)
  • "In the workshop, Colorado-Yule Marble Company, Marble, Colorado. Men work in Marble, Gunnison County, Colorado, in the Colorado- Yule Marble Company's mill "B". Carts of stone are on central tracks, flanked by worktables. The workers have buckets of water and handtools; lightbulbs hang from interior overhead beams, and a stove is to the side. Drive belts, pulleys and flywheels are in the background; signs read: "No Admittance Apply at Office," and "No Smoking." (between 1910 and 1917?)
  • "Hauling marble 9300 ft. above sea level. Near Marble, Gunnison County, Colorado, the Best steam tractor pulls wagons loaded with fresh quarried stone, crossing a log bridge over the Crystal River. Cal Adams drives the conveyance; mountains are in the background." (1908 or 1909?)
  • "Marble. Men move slabs of marble along a trolley line and with a crane in the long storage and sorting yard of the Colorado Yule Marble Company Quarry, Marble, Colorado. The mill where the stone is cut and polished is adjacent." (between 1910 and 1915)
  • "Marble mill, Marble, Colo. View shows the Marble mill belonging to the Colorado Yule Marble Company in Marble (Gunnison County), Colorado. Company housing lines a street in the background." (between 1900 and 1910?)
  • "Marble, Colorado. A miner uses a pneumatic tripod drill at the Colorado Yule Marble quarry near Marble (Gunnison County), Colorado." (between 1890 and 1900)
  • "Marble, Colorado. Miners work with pneumatic drills on rail tracks at the Colorado Yule Marble quarry near Marble (Gunnison County), Colorado" (between 1890 and 1900)
  • "Marble loading facilities and electric tramway terminal at Yule Marble Co. quarry above Marble, Colorado. Men of the Yule Marble Company load numbered marble blocks on flatbed rail cars of the Treasury Mountain Railroad above Marble, Pitkin County, Colorado. A steep wood stairway leads to quarry on face of Ragged Mountain." (1912?)
  • "Marble mining. View shows mining equipment precariously aligned on an exposed vein of marble at the quarries of the Colorado Yule Marble Company, Marble (Gunnison County), Colorado." (between 1900 and 1930?)
  • "Marble quarry of the Yule Marble Co. on Yule Creek: south of Marble, Colorado. View of Yule Marble quarry in Marble, Colorado; shows buildings, a crane, and terraced slopes." (1907)
  • "Marble - Strauss Quarry of Yule Marble Co. across the valley of Yule Creek from the Yule Quarry. View of men at the Strauss Quarry in Marble, Gunnison County, Colorado; also shows equipment and a rotating crane." (1912?)
  • "Marble mining. View shows men working at the quarries of the Colorado Yule Marble Company, Marble (Gunnison County), Colorado." (between 1900 and 1930?)
  • "Men drill in the huge chunks of marble, probably at the Colorado Yule Marble Company quarry, Marble, Gunnison County, Colorado. Trolley tracks are used to move equipment and blocks of marble." (between 1910 and 1912)
  • "Men move slabs of marble along a trolley line and with a crane in the long storage and sorting yard of the Colorado Yule Marble Company Quarry, Marble, Colorado. The mill where the stone is cut and polished is adjacent." (between 1910 and 1915)
  • "One mile of rails, for siding, in foreground: Property of Colorado-Yule Marble Co., Marble, Colo. Men pose at the Colorado-Yule property in Marble, Gunnison County, Colorado, by an engine and car of the Crystal River & San Juan Railroad. Lettered on car: "Way Car 01. Marble Line." Rail is stacked in the foreground." (April 1907)
  • "Receiving [sic] and shipping yard, Colo. Yule Marble Co., Marble, Colo. View of shipping and receiving yard for Colorado Yule Marble Company, Marble, Colorado; shows marble mill processing plant with large slabs of marble stacked next to Crystal River and San Juan Railroad siding, open box car, conveyor track or belt system; Treasury Mountain is in background right; printed identification on blocks of marble include "No.2, 7x3-8x3x3,16126" and No.4,6x5x2,1526?"; facility closed in 1941." (1913?)
  • "Sawing marble, Colo. Yule Marble Co. plant, Marble, Colo. Interior view of Colorado Yule Marble Company processing plant and mill, Marble, Colorado; shows slabs of marble ready for cutting, saw equipment and machinery, and processed or cut flat slabs of marble; facility closed in 1941." (1913?)
  • "View of a marble yard at a mill in Marble, Gunnison County, Colorado." (between 1890 and 1910)
  • "View of men working at the quarries of the Colorado Yule Marble Company, Marble (Gunnison County), Colorado. Shows a boiler and hoisting equipment." (between 1900 and 1930?)
  • Yule Marble Quarries (between 1900 and 1920?) Some dressed marble at the Colorado Yule Marble quarries, Marble, Colo.
  • Yule Marble finishing mill (between 1908 and 1920?)
  • "Yule-Marble finishing mill. The Colorado-Yule Marble Company's finishing mill in Marble, Gunnison County, Colorado under construction; lumber and company houses are nearby. Freight cars are on the tracks of the Crystal River & San Juan Railroad near the Crystal River. The town and Beaver Lake are in the background." (between 1906 and 1909?)
  • "Yule quarry, crane and power house facilities of the Yule Marble Co.: near the head of Yule Creek, south of Marble, Colorado. View of the Yule Marble quarry, in Marble, Colorado; shows a crane, buildings, cable and pulleys, a suspended block of stone, a gondola, and men working." (1910?)

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  Stone Carvers, Stone Cutters, etc., in Colorado

  • James Goss – Stone Sculptures of White Yule Marble from Colorado.
    • Colorado Yule Marble Sculptures by James Goss
  • Gary D. Grossman, Sculptor, G. Grossman’s Fine Art – Visit Gary Grossman’s web site to view photographs of California soapstone, Colorado alabaster, Kansas Tuxedo limestone, Kansas Cottonwood limestone, Virginia steatite, Wisconsin sandstone, Nova Scotia blue anhydrite, and Brazilian soapstone.
  • John Earl Herschberger, the Man who Carved the Lions – Mr. Herschberger worked on the Mormon Battalion Monument Article by Dick Dixon, Colorado Central Magazine, January 1998.

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