Property, Plant And Equipment

12 Months Ended

Dec. 31, 2011

Property, Plant And Equipment [Abstract]

(3) Property, Plant and Equipment

Property, plant and equipment and their estimated useful lives at December 31, 2011 and 2010 consisted of:

	Lives (Years)		2011		2010
Quarry land			$	2,004,549	$	2,004,549
Other land				8,611,090		7,906,086
Buildings and improvements		15 – 39		32,308,167		31,042,385
Cement manufacturing equipment		15 – 25		125,998,453		122,435,381
Ancillary equipment		5 – 10		13,279,851		12,964,237
Ready-mix and concrete production
machinery and equipment		5 – 15		35,550,946		33,220,392
Transportation and mobile equipment		3 – 7		43,355,665		40,689,339
Office machinery, equipment,
furniture and fixtures		3 – 10		2,897,792		2,872,920
Construction in process				5,140,496		5,432,905
			$	269,147,009	$	258,568,194
Less--Accumulated depreciation and depletion				182,427,598		173,656,095
			$	86,719,411	$	84,912,099

- Definition

The entire disclosure for long-lived, physical assets that are used in the normal conduct of business to produce goods and services and not intended for resale. Examples include land, buildings, machinery and equipment, and other types of furniture and equipment including, but not limited to, office equipment, furniture and fixtures, and computer equipment and software. This disclosure may include property plant and equipment accounting policies and methodology, a schedule of property, plant and equipment gross, additions, deletions, transfers and other changes, depreciation, depletion and amortization expense, net, accumulated depreciation, depletion and amortization expense and useful lives, income statement disclosures, assets held for sale and public utility disclosures.

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