Property, Plant And Equipment (Tables)

12 Months Ended

Dec. 31, 2013

Property, Plant and Equipment [Abstract]

Schedule of Property, Plant and Equipment

Property, plant and equipment and their estimated useful lives at December 31, 2013 and 2012 consisted of:

	Lives (Years)	2013		2012
Quarry land		$	2,004,549	$	2,004,549
Other land		7,652,373		8,659,314
Buildings and improvements	15 – 39	31,575,376		32,438,770
Cement manufacturing equipment	15 – 25	140,882,787		128,656,859
Ancillary equipment	5 – 10	13,445,127		13,371,257
Ready-mix and concrete production
machinery and equipment	5 – 15	32,656,580		36,169,037
Transportation and mobile equipment	3 – 7	40,252,829		44,353,311
Office machinery, equipment,
furniture and fixtures	3 – 10	2,601,698		3,051,858
Construction in process		5,345,483		7,583,428
		$	276,416,802	$	276,288,383
Less: Accumulated depreciation and depletion		192,017,921		193,109,379
		$	84,398,881	$	83,179,004
Less: Assets related to discontinued operations in Other Assets		3,458,277		—
		$	80,940,604	$	83,179,004