Colorado Stone Quarries, a subsidiary of the international Italian stone quarry corporation R.E.D. Graniti, extracted and donated this 2,300-lb. marble slab from the company's Colorado Yule Marble Quarry in Gunnison County. The slab is displayed at . . . — — Map (db m292298) HM
The Yule brothers, William and George, are credited with first discovering promising deposits of dense, white marble in apparently limitless quantities while prospecting on Ute Indian lands in the Elk Mountains in 1874. The marble, it was said, was . . . — — Map (db m292486) HM