Gunnison news-champion., 1911-01-13
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Tue folIa~iaS srom the boo-,er
Ne~ Years edition of the Roosy
Aoan'ain \e~-. -ho~- ~hsi auissde
Peep'e are seessatas - thisk af the
aressi stone industry besss aevelas,ed
% Northern GsnnIson county Id ~
from the facsle pen If Geo l.. Knapp.
HE also gives k,ad word ior the
Cssnssoa granite
The only marble deposits uow be-
ing worked to any extent IN Colorado
are those on lale ereek. q trlbutary
II the Crystal river. over in GUAM
soa county In NV jadsmsnt, the~s
marble deposits are among the very
greatest resosrces 81 the state Az
present, the entire ostpst ,s made By
. single company, the Colorsdo- Y ule
Marble eompsny There are several
other compsn'es holding parts of this
deposit, hoseser, aId one of them,
the Crystal River Marble company.
has done much development work
this year aud expects TO beela active
commercial operations in the spring.
The fule marble 10 equal in qaal-
Ity 10 the finest marble of Italy aud
Greece But the Yule marble IN
without a rival Ia the world when
getting out large -slzed blocks. 4
have been blocks taken out of the
quarry twenty feet long. Eve fees
IA diameter one way by little over
four feet the other, and the whole
huge mass absolutely free from any
fiaw or seam. The sub bases for the
colamns Of the Dew Denver postoffies
measure seven aud one half feet bv
hive and one-half by four feet, and
each is cut from single stone IL
white marble The government
inspector now supervising the cree
tlon Of this postofiice declares that
the marble going into the structure
Is without rival in the world
The lule marble ON one side Of
iule creek forms cliff 230 feet in
thickness, and showing for 1850
feet along the side of the mountain.
On the other side Of the creek the
depoeit 10 the ssns in thick aess, and
is visible for nearly as great length.
Most Of this huge mass is white or
only slightly veined. Much of it is
splendid statuary marble.
Colorado lule marble is used in
the Cuyahoga county courthouse at
Cleveland, in the courthouse at
YOUNG stown, OHIO; IN buildings
Of all sorts from New York TO
Salt Lake City; aud from Great
Falls, Montana, to Houston, Texas.
Here in enver, this marble forms
the interior tim of the Foster build
ing. The new Denver postoffice is
being built entirely Of this marble
a job which will cons nsume three times
as much marble as was used in con-
structing the Parthenon, and the
Cheesman memorial, at Congress
park, is also Yule marble.
Ii may be interesting 10 add that
twenty-foar columns for the court
house at Cleveland, each column
consisting of single block fifteen
feet long, were taken from a single
level of single quarry Of the Yule
creek deposits
There are large deposits Of elouded
and colored marbles at Villa Grove.
at Salida, at Bealah, and in the Wet
Mountain valley None of these de-
poslts is being actively worked at
the present time
GUNNISON-In NV Judgment,
the finest building granite produced
anywhere, no quarry nor country
barred This is the material Of
which the statehouse is constructed.
aud 1t forms the base of the new
state museum. The superstructure
will be either the same granite or
marble. Gunnison granite is
medium gray in color, works well,
weathers extremely well, aud is the
most intensely hard. enduring stuff
ever pat into building am told
that block Of granite has been
loosened In the Gunnison quarries
which is loo feet in length, by nearly