The Colorado Stone Industry

• 1882 - The Colorado Stone and Building Industry in 1882 (transcription), Excerpts from Mineral Resources of the United States, Calendar Year 1882, J. S. Powell, Director, Department of the Interior, United States Geological Survey, Government Printing Office, Washington, D. C., 1883. Excerpts from the chapters on 1) "Structural Materials" and 2) "The Useful Minerals of the United States."
• 1883 and 1884 - The Colorado Stone Industry, Excerpts from Mineral Resources of the United States - Calendar Years 1883 and 1884 (PDF images of sections), Department of the Interior, United States Geological Survey, Government Printing Office, Washington, D. C., 1885.
• 1885 - The Colorado Stone and Building Industry in 1885 (transcription), Excerpts from Mineral Resources of the United States, Calendar Year 1885 (PDF images of sections), David T. Day, Geologist, Department of the Interior, United States Geological Survey, Government Printing, Office, Washington, D. C., 1886. Excerpts from the chapter on "Structural Materials," by H. S. Sproull."

• 1886 - Colorado Building and Ornamental Stones, 1886, and History of the Colorado Stone Industry - Excerpt from Report of the United States National Museum Under the Direction of the Smithsonian Institutions For the Year Ending June 30, 1886, Chapter entitled, “The Collection of Building and Ornamental Stones In The U. S. National Museum: A Hand-book and Catalogue,” By George P. Merrill, Curator, Department Lithology and Physical Geology.

• 1886 - The Colorado Stone and Building Industry, 1886 (transcription), Excerpts from Mineral Resources of the United States, Calendar Year 1886 (PDF images of sections), David T. Day, Chief of Division of Mining Statistics and Technology, Department of the Interior, United States Geological Survey, Government Printing Office, Washington, D. C., 1887. Excerpts from the chapter on "Structural Materials," by William C. Day.
• 1887 - The Colorado Stone and Building Industry, 1887, Excerpts from Mineral Resources of the United States - Calendar Year 1887 (PDF images of sections), J. W. Powell, Director, David T. Day, Chief of Division of Mining Statistics and Technology, Department of the Interior, United States Geological Survey, Government Printing Office, Washington, D. C., 1888
• 1888 - The Colorado Stone and Building Industry, 1888, Excerpts from Mineral Resources of the United States - Calendar Year 1888 (PDF images of sections), J. W. Powell, Director, David T. Day, Chief of Division of Mining Statistics and Technology, Department of the Interior, United States Geological Survey, Government Printing Office, Washington, D. C., 1890
• 1889 and 1890 - The Colorado Stone and Building Industry, 1889, Excerpts from Mineral Resources of the United States - Calendar Year 1889 and 1890 (PDF images of sections), J. W. Powell, Director, David T. Day, Chief of Division of Mining Statistics and Technology, Department of the Interior, United States Geological Survey, Government Printing Office, Washington, D. C., 1892
• 1891 - The Colorado Stone and Building Industry, 1891, Excerpts from Mineral Resources of the United States - Calendar Year 1891 (PDF images of sections), J. W. Powell, Director David T. Day, Chief of Division of Mining Statistics and Technology, Department of the Interior, United States Geological Survey, Government Printing Office, Washington, D. C., 1893
• 1892 - The Colorado Stone and Building Industry, 1892, Excerpts fro`m Mineral Resources of the United States - Calendar Year 1892 (PDF images of sections), J. W. Powell, Director, David T. Day, Chief of Division of Mining Statistics and Technology, Department of the Interior, United States Geological Survey Government Printing Office, Washington, D. C., 1893
• 1892 – “The Colorado Stone Industry,” in Stone:  An Illustrated Magazine, October 1892
• 1893 - The Colorado Stone and Building Industry, 1893, Excerpts from Mineral Resources of the United States - Calendar Year 1893 (PDF images of sections), J. W. Powell, Director, David T. Day, Chief of Division of Mining Statistics and Technology, Department of the Interior, United States Geological Survey, Government Printing Office, Washington, D. C., 1894
• 1894 - The Colorado Stone and Building Industry, 1894, Excerpts from Sixteenth Annual Report of the United States Geological Survey (PDF images of sections), Part IV. Mineral Resources of the United States, 1894, Nonmetallic Products, Washington: Government Printing Office, 1894.
• 1895 - The Colorado Stone and Building Industry, 1895, Excerpts from Seventeenth Annual Report of the United States Geological Survey (PDF images of sections), Part III. Mineral Resources of the United States, 1895, Nonmetallic Products, Except Coal. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1896.
• 1896 - The Colorado Stone and Building Industry, 1896, Excerpts from Eighteenth Annual Report of the United States Geological Survey (PDF images of sections), Part V. Mineral Resources of the United States, 1896, Nonmetallic Products, Except Coal. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1897.
• 1897 - The Colorado Stone and Building Industry, 1897, Excerpts from Nineteenth Annual Report of the United States Geological Survey (PDF images of sections), Part V. Mineral Resources of the United States, 1896, Nonmetallic Products, Except Coal. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1898.
• 1898 - The Colorado Stone and Building Industry, 1898, Excerpts from Twentieth Annual Report of the United States Geological Survey (PDF images of sections), Part VI. Mineral Resources of the United States, 1898, Nonmetallic Products, Except Coal and Coke. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1899.
• 1899 - The Colorado Stone and Building Industry, 1899, Excerpts from Twenty-first Annual Report of the United States Geological Survey (PDF images of sections), Part VI. Mineral Resources of the United States, 1899, Nonmetallic Products, Except Coal and Coke. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1901.
• 1900 - The Colorado Stone and Building Industry, 1900, Excerpts from Mineral Resources of the United States - Calendar Year 1900 (PDF images of sections), Charles D. Walcott, Director, David T. Day, Chief of Division of Mining and Mineral Resources, Department of the Interior, United States Geological Survey, Government Printing Office, Washington, D. C., 1901
• 1901 - The Colorado Stone and Building Industry, 1901, Excerpts from Mineral Resources of the United States - Calendar Year 1901 (PDF images of sections), Charles D. Walcott, Director, David T. Day, Chief of Division of Mining and Mineral Resources, Department of the Interior, United States Geological Survey, Government Printing Office, Washington, D. C., 1902
• 1902 - The Colorado Stone and Building Industry, 1902, Excerpts from Mineral Resources of the United States, Calendar Year 1902 (PDF images of sections), Charles D. Walcott, Director, Department of the Interior, United States Geological Survey, Government Printing Office, Washington, D. C., 1904.
• 1903 - The Colorado Stone and Building Industry, 1903, Excerpts from Mineral Resources of the United States, Calendar Year 1903 (PDF images of sections), Charles D. Walcott, Director Department of the Interior, United States Geological Survey, Government Printing Office, Washington, D. C., 1904.
• 1904 - The Colorado Stone and Building Industry, 1904, Excerpts from Mineral Resources of the United States, Calendar Year 1904 (PDF images of sections), Charles D. Walcott, Director, Department of the Interior, United States Geological Survey, Government Printing Office, Washington, D. C., 1905.
• 1905 - The Colorado Stone and Building Industry, 1905, Excerpts from Mineral Resources of the United States - Calendar Year 1905 (PDF images of sections), Charles D. Walcott, Director, Department of the Interior, United States Geological Survey, Government Printing Office, Washington, D. C., 1906.
• 1906 - The Colorado Stone and Building Industry, 1906, Excerpts from Mineral Resources of the United States - Calendar Year 1906 (PDF images of sections), George Otis Smith, Director, Department of the Interior, United States Geological Survey, Government Printing Office, Washington, D. C., 1907.
• 1907 - The Colorado Stone and Building Industry, 1907, Excerpts from Mineral Resources of the United States, Calendar Year 1907 (PDF images of sections), Part II.  Nonmetallic Products, George Otis Smith, Director, Department of the Interior, United States Geological Survey,  Government Printing Office, Washington, D. C., 1908.
• 1908 - The Colorado Stone Industry, 1908 (transcription), Excerpts from Mineral Resources of the United States, Calendar Year 1908 (PDF images of sections), Part II - Nonmetallic Products, Department of the Interior, United States Geological Survey, Government Printing Office, Washington, D. C., 1909. Excerpts from the book are from the chapters on: 1) "Slate," by A. T. Coons; and 2) "Stone," by A. T. Coons.
• 1994 through 2010-2011 – The Mineral Industry of Colorado – United States Geological Survey (1994 through 2011).
• Colorado Mining Association
• Colorado Sandstone Quarrying – Building Materials Vocabulary, presented by Campus Architect, Department of Facilities Management, University of Colorado at Boulder. (Several photographs are presented on this web site to correspond with the information on Colorado building stone and the stone used on the campus. Below is only a small amount of the information available in this section of Campus Architect Building Materials Vocabulary section of the web site.)

  The sandstone quarries located between Boulder and Loveland, provided the stone for use on the University of Colorado at Boulder campus. According to this web site, the stone is not quarried as block dimension stone in the area but is fractured in layers. The color of the sandstone ranges from “red on the south to white on the north.”

  Sandstone

  The quarries located along the front range have been in operation since at least the 1880s. Although the quarries declined in 1912, there was a revitalization of the quarries in the 1930s and 1940s during the World War II years. The sandstone is described as “lying in shallow layers near the surface along the front range,” is relatively hard, and ranges in color “from purple to a deep dark red to almost white with the red colors found near Boulder and the lighter colors as far north as Loveland. The deep rich reds are more scarce as are the buffs streaked with iron oxide (stain faced).”

• Colorado State Rock, presented by Netstate.

• Colorado Yule Marble: Building Stone of the Lincoln Memorial, U. S. Geological Survey Bulletin 2162, by Elaine S. McGee, Department of the Interior, U. S. Geological Survey, 1999, 43 pp., in PDF format. (A brief history of the Yule Quarry is included in Appendix C.)

• Lyons Stone Quarries and Industry, presented by the Lyons, Colorado, Chamber of Commerce. In the historic district of Lyons, fifteen sandstone buildings are listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Native sandstone was used in the construction of the buildings. Master craftsmen constructed the structures between the early 1870s and 1917. Some of the sandstone quarries are still operating today. (The link from which this information was obtained is no longer available.)
  <http://www.lyons-colorado.com/stone_and_quarries.htm>
• Marble, Colorado (book) - Marble: A Town Built on Dreams, Vol. 1, by Oscar McCollum, Sundance Publications, Limited, 1992, ISBN: 0913582557. Volume I includes the Crystal River Railroad and the Carbondale-Redstone-Coalbasin region, as well as the story of the Colorado-Yule Marble Company's struggles in Marble, CO, 352 pages with 380 black and white and 50 full color views.
• Marble, Colorado (book) - Marble: A Town Built on Dreams, Vol. II, by Oscar McCollum, Sundance Publications, Limited, 1993. Volume II includes Col. Meek's management of the marble company, coverage of the Crystal River and San Juan Railroad's trackage, as well as material on the quarrying of marble and the Colorado-Yule tramway, 352 pages with 367 black and white and 33 full color views.
• Marble, Gunnison County, Colorado - The History of Marble, Colorado, presented by Marble Tourism Association.
• Mining and Mineral Resources of Colorado, presented by the Colorado State Geological Survey.
  • Colorado Geology
    • Mineral Resources

  • Field Trips

  • Historic Mining Districts in Colorado

  • Free & Kid’s Stuff

  • Rocktalk Newsletter
• Mining History of Colorado: Colorado State Mineral Production Summary History, Major Minerals, Metals, and Energy Fuels, presented by the Mineral Information Institute.
• Mount Sanitas History – Lyon Sandstone Quarries. (The following information was available from the City of Boulder Colorado web site.  The link from which the information was obtained is no longer available.)
  <http://www.bouldercolorado.gov/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2777&Itemid=1082#sanitas>

  The sandstone quarries in this area during the 1920s were owned by the University of Colorado, and the stone was used to build many of the campus buildings, including Helms and Sewell Hall. Due to danger and high operating costs, the quarries were abandoned. In 1969 the City of Boulder purchased the quarries, and later in 1974 the surrounding land was also purchased.

• Turret Mountain Mining District (Chaffee County) – “Hard Rock from Turret” (Granite) (The original link to the article entitled “Hard Rock from Turret” is no longer available.  The article, however, is available on the Internet Archive – Wayback Machine.) Original link: < http://cozine.com/1997-december/hard-rock-from-turret/>

  Article by Dick Dixon, Colorado Central Magazine, December 1997. Although the granite originated from the quarries at Turret, the names given to the granite were named according to the town the granite was shipped from - the town of Salida. Prior to 1920 the gray granite was called "Dark Salida," but before the 1920s was known as "Salida Blue." was known as "Blue Salida." A fine, pink granite was sold as "Salida Rose Pink." Sometimes a fine granite was found that "took on a deep forest green color." This granite was called "Salida Green," although it was very rare. This article fully describes transporting the granite from quarry.

• Women in Mining - About Minerals - "Women In Mining is dedicated to educating students, teachers and the general public about the importance of minerals."

• “Yule Marble:  Colorado’s Pure White Treasure and New State Rock!” YouTube video, Mark Newby, Colorado Geological Survey.   

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