They are named after Lawrence Grassi (1890-1980), an Italian miner who emigrated to Canada in 1912.

Both mines took on Polish and Italian miners at this time.

Due to an accident on 24 July 1908 in which rock, washed with alpine waters, collapsed into the tunnel gallery killing 25 Italian miners.

Utah's first important experience with labor strife occurred in the 1903 Carbon County strike that involved, predominantly, Italian miners.

The Italian miners were the initially dissatisfied group.

The mountain is named for Lawrence Grassi (1890-1980), an Italian miner who emigrated to Canada in 1912.

Ciancabilla eventually moved westward, settling among the Italian miners of Spring Valley, Illinois.

Kenehan then explains to the local miners that accepting the blacks and the Italian miners is what the union is all about.

An Italian miner named Alberto Prasso received a concession to mine this deposit in 1924.

Cheerfully he tells the story of making a coffin in Colorado for an Italian miner who fell to his death.