Talk:Telluride, Colorado

Tellurium
The article suggests that the place name may have come from "tellurium" as an old name for a kind of gold ore (before it became a name for an element found in some gold ores). Is it really true that the name was ever used in this way? GMcGath 20:40, 13 April 2006 (UTC)


 * It is speculated.

A compound with metal or hydrogen and similar ions to Tellurium is called a Telluride. I have heard variously that Tellurium was never found here [Telluride], & that a Gold or Silver (I don't remember) Telluride was found here.

It is also speculated that it came from a local statement, sometimes atributed to rail workers, sometimes to mine workers, to a contraction of the statement "To Hell You Ride, boy, to hell you ride!", "To-Hell-You-Ride" becomming "T 'ell You Ride", becomming, in print, "T'ell-U-Ride", or Telluride". Grye 11:31, 27 April 2006 (UTC)


 * I have read that the name could come from either use and the element was discovered and named in 1782, so that is a definite possibility. I would like to think that it came from, as Grye said, "To Hell You Ride"


 * Also, I forgot to log in, but I did the most recent update to this page. I left everyones links alone, though I re-arranged them to allow people to weed out the visitor/tourist information from the Historical information. -CameraCourage

The township WAS NOT renamed from Columbia in 1887. This is a false narrative repeated as truth several times over and now accepted as fact. Although perhaps the community may have been named Columbia and the name change could not have occurred as late as 1887, there are documents showing that Telluride was the accepted name of the community by the postal service as early as 1880 when Telluride was part of Ouray County. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 139.78.246.16 (talk) 17:45, 21 September 2017 (UTC)

Atlas Shrugged link
I just saw the tombstone for John Gault in the Telluride Cemetary.

Coincidence? I think not.

Grye 11:07, 2 November 2006 (UTC)

Article layout
the "external links" section needs to change. again. lets look here: WikiProject Council/Directory/Geographical/North America for starts... Grye 02:25, 14 January 2007 (UTC)
 * ....OK... make that "...I'll look here, for starts..." Grye 00:42, 19 January 2007 (UTC)

Thanks y'all... don't complain when it changes...;~D Grye 06:35, 29 January 2007 (UTC)

I have added the picture to the infobox once again. I don't know why, but it has been previously removed. I'm sure it is all good with the copyrights because I took that picture myself. It is ok if someone wants to change it, but please, don't just remove it if you're not going to replace it with a better picture. Felipecbg 21:06, 15 October 2007 (UTC)

I think the thumbnails should be standardized to 200px, so the article will look better. Felipecbg 21:06, 15 October 2007 (UTC)

Also, I have written the "Transportation" section. I think it's important to talk about it in this article. If you have something to improve it, go ahead. Otherwise, if it ain't broken, don't fix it. Felipecbg 21:06, 15 October 2007 (UTC)

Marie Curie
is the Marie Curie mentioned here this same Marie Curie? I do see mention of ores etc in her Biography section. Grye 05:49, 17 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Why yes, G-Rye, it is. thanks for assking...;~D Grye 20:08, 13 March 2007 (UTC)

Supposed Marie Curie-Placerville Connection
Yes I do have a reference - I believe a better one than yours [GRYE]. As I requested in my previous comment, please see the article on Placerville, Colorado. I added to that article some details on the mining there, and cited as my source an article by a U.S. Geological Survey geologist, that the ore at Placerville was originally mined for vanadium, as the uranium mineral carnotite was only a minor constituent of the ore. The principal ore mineral was roscoelite, which contains vanadium, but no uranium. The minor uranium content of the Placerville vanadium ore was not recovered until about 1950. This hardly squares with uranium from Placerville going to Marie Curie. As for the vague claim that Marie Curie "is said to have visited the area," such a visit would have been covered by newspapers nationwide, so you certainly should be able to come up with a contemporary newspaper source for that one. Perhaps the reason that this is a "little-known fact" is because it's not true. If you don't have access to a good geological library, I can scan the cited article and email it to you.Plazak 04:07, 18 June 2007 (UTC)

At the risk of once again offending the Guardians of Cherished Local Myths, I have added to the description and documentation of vanadium mining in the Placerville article, which is consistent that there is no documented production of uranium from the Placerville mines until long after Marie Curie's death. In the meantime, no one has posted any good documentation in support of uranium from the Placerville mines going to Curie. That the Telluride article continues to include unsupported statements does it discredit. Particularly egregious is inclusion of the rumor that Curie "is said to have visited the area." That statement is blatant hearsay that should be either documented or removed from the article.Plazak 15:41, 24 June 2007 (UTC)

No one stepped forward to document the rumor that Marie Curie visited SW Colorado, so I removed it. Now for the remaining statement about supposed uranium mining at Placerville, Colorado: if anyone reads the reference for this statement, they will see that it does not represent that uranium was mined at Placerville, nor does it say that Curie bought such uranium in 1898. I have no disagreement with the source material, only the way that it is garbled and misrepresented in the Telluride article.Plazak 17:51, 4 August 2007 (UTC)

No one came up with a source for the remaining "little known fact," so I removed it.Plazak 13:33, 2 September 2007 (UTC)
 * It looks like she visited the US twice, in 1921 and 1929; she appears to have visited multiple cities. An interesting note in a Los Angeles Times article from 1994 that says "Madame Curie herself visited the [Colorado Plateau] region to look at samples." There must be a more detailed record of this... --Limulus (talk) 00:37, 16 May 2016 (UTC)


 * I did an admittedly cursory search, and the closest I could place her to Telluride was that in 1921, she planned to visit the Grand Canyon, which a New York newspaper carelessly misplaced in Colorado: Engineering & Mining Journal, Feb 1921. But I wish you well in your search. Regards. Plazak (talk) 01:15, 16 May 2016 (UTC)  I have hung around enough old mining towns to know that they often have entertaining local legends which everyone there assumes to be true, because they have heard these things stated as facts all their lives - only they are not true. I think this has something to do with the barroom culture in these towns. This of course does not mean that Mme. Curie did not show up at Telluride, just that I would not be at all surprised if she did not. Plazak (talk) 01:41, 16 May 2016 (UTC)

companies with wikipedia pages
dunno where this might go, but here's some wikilinks to companies that own telluride companies


 * GateHouse Media owns Telluride Daily Planet, Norwood Post, & Silverton Standard
 * Specialty Sports Venture is Telluride Sports
 * Gaylord Entertainment Company, who owns ResortQuest, a vacation rental management company

Telluride Truffles

Someone needs to add the 'Telluride Truffle Chocolate Shop' and the website for the lusciously ddelicious chocolate truffles that they sell. Their website is :

http://www.telluridetruffle.com

Mylittlezach (talk) 20:26, 29 November 2011 (UTC)
 * It can be added if it meets the requirements of the external link policy. de Bivort 21:11, 29 November 2011 (UTC)

Telluride Academy
Telluride Academy probably deserve some mention and perhaps its own article? EmilyWolff (talk) 05:39, 31 October 2008 (UTC)

"Telluride" songs
I've added another song called "Telluride" to the article. It appeared on the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band's album Partners, Brothers, and Friends in 1985, and its lyrics refer specifically to the gold mining associated with the town. Willbyr (talk | contribs) 20:07, 12 January 2009 (UTC)

Geography section
Geography section contains information about transportation that should be in the Transportation section, and sure enough it is there also. So the information about the airports and roads should be deleted from the Geography section. BTW there are also repetitions about Glenn Frey and "Smugglers Blues" and Tom Cruise, Oprah Winfrey. אביהו (talk) 17:05, 3 December 2016 (UTC)