Colorado Yule Marble Company

Welcome to the colorado yule marble quarry located in marble colorado usa.

Colorado yule marble company.

Yule marble company finishing mill ca. This stone is especially good for exterior interior wall and floor applications monuments countertops mosaic fountains pool and and other design projects. George yule for whom the marble was later named was the prospector who rediscovered the marble in 1874. Attempted to restart in 1937 but were unable to so.

The quarry employed around 125 men. It also called valley gold vein marble colorado white marble colorado yule white marble colorado yule lincoln marble. Colorado marble and mining was formed in 1891 by steven keene with capital stock of 1 000 000. Overview this one is a marble of metamorphosed limestone found only in the yule creek valley in the west elk mountains of colorado 2 8 miles 4 5 km southeast of the town of marble colorado.

In the same year samples of the marble were taken polished and later appeared in denver but failed to generate interest. 1913 at its peak the colorado yule marble company employed several hundred men at the enormous finishing mill at marble with a high percentage of them being skilled laborers from italy. First discovered in 1873 it is. 1907 the colorado yule marble company completes the construction of a hydro electric plant on a plot of land just east of the town of marble and once the marble arrived in the town of marble its contents were loaded into the largest mill of its kind in the entire world.

This historic quarry has been in existence for over 100 years. In 1909 the lease was transferred to monarch marble in 1921 to colorado white marble company by the morman church of missouri and out of business in 1926. Located in the he. Colorado yule marble perhaps best known for its stunning application on the ambitious lincoln memorial project yule marble s impressive resume in fact boasts dozens upon dozens of highly demanding and very high profile commissions.

One thousand four hundred feet long it was and 150 feet wide. By 1920 marble had a population of only 81. In 1930 however the yule colorado company was awarded the most prestigious marble contract of the time that of the block for the tomb of the unknown soldier. Workers hand polish marble slabs at the yule marble co.

Yule marble was discovered in the crystal river valley in the spring of 1873 by geologist sylvester richardson. The colorado yule marble company closed the quarry and the finishing mill in 1917.