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Yocemento, Kansas

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a more financially promising destination than Fort Kearny in Nebraska. The standing acts of Congress stipulated that the road should follow the Republican River. A few, however, felt that the Smoky Hill Valley would be a far more direct route to Denver, and construction through the valley would be easier. That summer the route was officially changed to follow the Smoky Hill river. The survey party had returned with a plan that would have the road first head for the isolated village of Salina.
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and their families were mostly Catholic and at first, held services in their homes. However, in 1906 they built a frame church on a site west of the first bend of Big Creek. In 1910, the small community had a general store, a hotel, a restaurant, and a post office. Situated on the Union Pacific Railroad, some shipping was also conducted. It had a population of about 75 people at the time. Unfortunately, by 1917, the cement plant was losing money and they went into bankruptcy.
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Smoky Hill valleys and gave promise of soon threatening the favorite buffalo hunting grounds of the red men. ... Tall Bull, a prominent Cheyenne war chief, ably stated the Indians' case when he told the commissioners that the red men were on the warpath to prevent Kansas and Colorado being settled by palefaces. He said that the Indians claimed that part of the country as their own, and did not want railroads built through it to scare away the buffalo.
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limestone from the top of the bluff to a mill in the valley. Yost saw that with no capital investment ample water was to be found in the creek and the transcontinental railroad passing through the site could bring in fuel and ship out cement as far as either coast without freight transfer. Yost also observed that they could leverage the largest industry in western Kansas by founding an adjoining town and selling the lots.
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routes over the Hog Back further south. The railroad, however, was able to cut a roadbed through the slumping. Unfortunately, the slump was not stable and the railroad repeatedly repaired the shifting roadbed over the decades. By the early 1900s, railroad surveyors considered tunneling through the Hogback. Eventually, the railroad drove many
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Portland cement plant has been sold by the sheriff to J. K. Mullen, the miller millionaire of Denver for $ 165,000 … The cement is known the world over has been recognized and is as near the standard of the Portland cement of England … title to it for six months. It is their intention to put the mill
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When the Kansas Pacific was ordered constructed from Ellsworth to Parkfort, near WaKeeney, the Indians declared it should not be. They murdered six employees of the Kansas Pacific near Victoria. ... Also killed two men at the Butterfield station four miles south of Rome. Also Park and his hired men
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Overland transportation suffered more than did the frontier settlements during 1866. The Smoky Hill route continued to receive its full share of attention by the Indians. This no doubt was due to the fact that the Union Pacific railroad, eastern division, was moving rapidly westward along the Kaw and
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Hays City and Ellis were founded in 1867 and 1870, respectively. However, as fertile as the valley was, the Hog Back ridge of limestone and chalk between the two settlements was considered unsuitable for wheat farming and was initially rejected by immigrant settlers. By 1910, the local press referred
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The meeting was called to order by the Chairman. The matter of grading the Golden Belt Road, beginning at the southwest corner of section six (6), ... The County Surveyor was instructed to said road as described. Said road to be thirty (30) feet wide. ... On motion of Commissioner Grabbe the Board
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Meanwhile, a survey party was sent west out of Fort Riley. Their charge was to plot the best route to a new destination for the railroad: Denver. By then it was obvious that the UP out of Omaha would win the race for the 100th meridian. UPED President John Perry decided it was advantageous to target
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The problem the railroad was having with the tracks at Yocemento also created an opportunity to improve the Federal highway there. When the railroad moved the tracks well away from the landslide area (1951–52) the new Highway 40 section was also built south of the tracks from a new bridge across Big
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into the bank (still visible from the highway), but failed to stabilize the roadbed. In 1951–52, Union Pacific straightened the alignment of the tracks to cut across the bow of Big Creek though the abandoned townsite, also cutting a new channel for the creek about 500 feet (150 m) to the north.
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weathers away but is unable to support high, steep slopes. As in the Benecke photograph of the treeless Hog Back, this slump formed a narrow terrain between the deep banks of Big Creek and the steep slope of the bluff. The blocks of the slump obstructed wagon traffic west from Fort Hays, which found
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he discovered in the area. In 1923, a few years after the mill had closed, Haworth returned to the area just a few miles northwest of Yocemento to drill for oil. His company drilled only one dry hole and then abandoned the effort because of a drop in oil prices. Fortunately for the county and state,
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Yocemento is the location of a grain elevator and bulk fertilizer and chemical warehouse operated by Midland Marketing farmer's cooperative. There are a number of homes, most built long after the closure of the mill. A few of the concrete walls and foundations of the mill remain, parts of which have
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found along the high, steep banks of Big Creek just west of Yocemento. Dating to about 1000 CE, it is interpreted as a butchering and tool working site: Animal bones include bison, deer, and small mammals. The on-site manufacture of stone tools included heat treatment of quartzite, flint, silicified
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The new road to be built south of the tracks from the west edge of Hays to the UP Railroad crossing west of Yocemento, is known as the Yocemento project. ... Cushing made no comments on ... the amount of money the Railroad will spend to move its tracks to a new roadbed north of the present right of
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Yes, as you allude to in your email, all the plaques we installed when we reopened Union Station in 1999 were taken down for remodeling within the last 10 years or so and just haven't been re-installed. I believe the plaque you are referring to was on the second floor in the hallway leading to the
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When last year president I. M. Yost and treasurer J. H. Ward talked "Cement Works at Hog Back," lots of our people scoffed. But when the commercial clubs of Kansas City and Salina were here, both parties were accompanied by many of our citizens inspected the works, saw the immense machinery in full
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Founded in 1906 by the U.S. Portland Cement Company as the future site of a cement plant, the town site was platted in 1907 and its post office opened in March of the same year. Fifteen months later, in mid-1908, the plant was operational with most of its common laborers being Hungarians. These men
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From the first settlement, wagon travel up the line west of Fort Hays meant either crossing and driving north of Big Creek or crossing over the top of the Hog Back to the south. The ground was too rough at the base of the bluff at Big Creek for wagon traffic; moreover, that passage was occupied by
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Over 1915–1916, the Ellis County government extended the Yocemento Road to Ellis to complete the county's segment of the Kansas City-Denver Golden Belt Road though the county. The extension started at the section line where the St. Agnes Church stood, running straight west along Third Street (see
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The first public road constructed from Hays to Yocemento, originally named "Yocemento Road", was built expressly to connect Hays economically with the expected cement boom at Yocemento. Extending from 12th Street at Hays, the road crossed Big Creek along the old Main Street of Rome and continued
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Together, the two climbed the high bluff on a south bend of Big Creek and took in the scene. Riding back to Hays, Haworth pitched the idea of a cement plant at that bluff. He thought this could be the site of the most profitable cement mill in the state; only gravity would be needed to move the
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A short time after the trouble with the Indians the contractors re-occupied their camps and resumed work. This depleted the population of Rome and business languished for a short period. The arrival of additional troops and civilian employees in the quartermaster's department was sufficient to
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Construction of the mill began in 1907. Freeborn Engineering and Construction Co. of Kansas City, Mo. were the engineers and contractors for the plant. First, a gravity-worked cable lift and then a trolley were installed to lower limestone from the quarry to the mill. By mid-1908, the mill was
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In 1906, Erasmus Haworth was revising and enlarging his first geological map of Kansas and sought a guide for the area, saying years later, "I had heard of Ike Yost, I wanted to meet the man. I knew he had been in Hays many years and thought he would give me some pointers on topography of the
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the next day just 12 miles north of present day Yocemento. However, it was the September 20 attack on Park's Fort, 35 miles (56 km) west of Hays City, that caused a complete halt to surveying and construction west of Hays. Thousands of construction workers, surveyors, and early settlers
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It was these citizens who built St. Agnes Catholic Church. At one point there was a general store, a hotel, and a restaurant in Yocemento. Later, the church was abandoned as people moved away, and the building was moved to the Buckeye community in 1931 to be used as a community
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Early frontier geologists were drawn to the monumental limestone bluffs in this location and the chalk exposures beyond. The original interest was in the mapping and study of Cretaceous fossils, this general area of the state becoming a part of the broader focus of the
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from Yocemento west, coming before the Board, same was ordered passed until Monday, March eighth, at 9 am, and the County Surveyor instructed to view and report on said road and examine the old Palmer bride and report on the possibility of using the bridge on said
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Creek at Hays to the old crossing just west of Yocemento. The old highway north of the track is now maintained by the county, and is named Rome Avenue, running from near the old crossing and passing through Yocemento, and a few miles further on passing the
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later exploration by others proved Haworth correct; his one well had been drilled right between two of the largest producing oil pools in Kansas. At times over the following decades, Ellis County ranked as the top oil producing county in Kansas.
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I might have learned that Erasmus Haworth had been the first state geologist and director of the present Geological Survey and that he had mapped the structure on which lies the most productive oil field in Kansas, the El Dorado of Butler
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cement interests of Denver began expanding activities, built new cement mills in Colorado and told the Union Pacific flatly they didn't want competition from the Yocemento mill. This was the added weight that eventually broke the back of
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I. M. Yost moved to Kansas City, then to Denver, and later to California, but remained interested in Hays, returning a few times. Erasmus Haworth did not return to Ellis County until 1923, then to survey the Yocemento area for oil.
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An abandoned railroad alignment is south of the present county highway, with the original highway alignment lying 300 yards (270 m) to the north in the old townsite. The original alignment of the railroad was cut across the
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No. 4569 -- United States Portland Cement Co., of Yocemento, Kan., against the Union Pacific Railroad Co., et al. Against an arbitrary of 3c per 100 pounds on shipments of cement moving from Yocemento, Kan., to points in
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operation, saw thousands of tons of rock out and broken up, ready to be rolled down into the steel choppers, grinders and bakers, and they swelled with pride that way out here on the prairie, out there at those
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Denied affordable coal, the plains cement mills were able to make use of oil, newly produced in eastern Kansas and Oklahoma. A penny postcard photograph shows three large oil tanks at the Yocemento cement mill.
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Then eastern Kansas competitors began cutting prices under the market price and Yocemento which had been laughed at in the beginning was threatened. Competitors began to dig into their volume of business. They
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The spring of 1868 saw the UPED with some 375 miles of track in service. Yet again, Indian raids proved a threat to survey parties and construction crews. By the end of September the trouble had passed.
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The image shows that in 1867, the railroad took its right-of-way over and through the slump blocks; wagon traffic having to either cross the hock Back to the south or the creek ravine to the north.
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precipitated conflict with the tribes that claimed this region of the High Plains as buffalo hunting grounds. The original public plan for the Kansas Pacific Railway (then UPED) was to follow the
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Many traveled to Denver on the long-established Santa Fe Trail or the Platte River Road but many others chose to make the trip across Kansas on the shorter but more hazardous Smoky Hill Trail.
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In late October 1873, Benecke traveled from Kansas City to Denver, commissioned by the Kansas Pacific Railway to photograph sites of interest for the company's promotional use.
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K. R. Neuhauser. Department of Earth Sciences, Fort Hays State University (1988). "A Kinematic Analysis of Slump Blocks Along the. Saline River Valley, Ellis County, Kansas".
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I. M. Yost was a long-standing miller in Hays; a leading businessman not only of that community, but of early 1900s western Kansas. In the 1870s, he built the first of the
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The mill initially operated at a small profit and the product's test strength was as good as any of the best cements. Cement produced in Yocemento was used to build the
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However, by the time of the first United States settlements here in the mid-19th century, the Pawnee had diminished and the general territory was under the claim of the
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Missouri cement plants undercut market prices and railroads applied surcharges to the plains cement mills. In 1911, U. S. Portland Cement Co. filed complaint with the
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This man is none other than Professor Erasmus Haworth widely known now as the "father of oil" in Western Kansas. ... Haworth didn't return to Ellis County until 1923.
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Parallel highway and railroad track west out of Yocemento; the original track was at the base of the bluff at left, original highway was behind the trees at right.
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to Fort Kearny in Nebraska. This course avoided the Cheyenne main buffalo hunting grounds. However, as the tracks reached Junction City, it became clear that the
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that had slid from the slope into the creek, which was undercutting the bluff. Slumping is characteristic on bluffs of the Fort Hays Escarpment, where the deep
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in Ellis County was a $ 900,000 cement works, ready to turn out and help fill the great demand for the building material of the Romans and of America today.
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would then enter the country of three nomadic Indian tribes: the Cheyenne, Arapahoe and Kiowa. ... mile and a half per day. ... Then the Indian raids began.
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The partners soon founded the United States Portland Cement Company and began selling stock, Yost selling a third of the shares. The town of Yocemento (a
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are sawed into blocks, and employed in the construction of buildings. ... About eight miles west of Hays City there are about 60 feet exposed, of the
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There was a pumping station on the east county line called Park's Fort. ... This was the end of the railroad until after the winter of 1867–1868, ...
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Yost's plan above) to cross the track; from that crossing, it ran along the south of the track through Ellis. Much of the Golden Belt Road became
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The mill began losing money and Yost and Haworth had to relinquish control, the company going into bankruptcy a few years later. In March 1916,
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to 1947 in the Union Pacific tracks ran on the north side of the elevator and made a slight curve to run along the river bluffs to the south,
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in 1926, thus the earliest road from Hays "through the heart" of Yocemento was the only segment of the original "Highway 40" alignment between
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Some strange officers had just joined the railway construction party from one of the military posts farther east, and a few miles outside of
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With the mill closed, residents began to leave the community. The post office closed as well. In 1931, the church building was moved to
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they came across Cody in his remarkable hunting get-up just as he had sighted a small "bunch" of eleven buffalo over the crest of a "
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adjourned to 1:30 p m. The Board met pursuant to adjournment, all members present. The matter of grading and building bridges on the
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The earliest studied human occupation of the Yocemento location is a settlement interpreted as the rarely preserved Early Ceramic (
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Low resolution scan of penny postcard picture of the Yocemento cement plant as viewed from the limestone quarry. USGenWeb Archives
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operational, and the town included a general store, hotel, and restaurant. Many local residents employed at the mill were ethnic
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Camp New Fort Hays, Kan., September 20, 1867 Mr. Parks, in charge of the railroad camp above here, was killed by Indians today.
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We are advised that work has begun on the new 1,000-bbl. cement plant for the Uncle Sam Portland Cement Co., at Yocemento, ...
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hill. Some favor the Cement company making the tunnel, using the shale to make cement, and then the railroad use the tunnel.
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Contracts were awarded during the winter of 1866 and 1867 to build the grade as far west as Park's Fort in Trego county.
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Yocemento: Handles dry and liquid fertilizer along with NH3, bulk chemicals, also mixes, dry fertilizer with seed wheat.
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against the base of bluffs capped by massive limestone blocks, in which lies the 20th-century origin of the community.
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The Railroad surveyors were busy this week setting the stakes for the new switches at Hogback and Yosemento [
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Chemical and Petrographic Studies of the Fort Hays Chalk in Kansas, Kansas Geological Survey, Bulletin 82 Part 1
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They dismantled most of the mill at once; but parts of it still stand and have been remodeled into family homes.
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The first land shown was near Hog Back, but this pleased so little that the men determined to return to Russia.
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The portion of original creek channel at the base of the bluff remains, water still occasionally ponding where
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I. M. Yost for many years was a leading business man not only of Hays, but of the entire western half Kansas.
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to do so. Due to the inconvenience and accidents at the west crossing, this matter was eventually corrected.
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October 8, 1867. The railroad is just completed, and the cars came into this town for the first time today.
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to Park's Fort, was perceived as a violation of Cheyenne and Arapaho territory. From July through August,
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had a large seasonal hunting camp 11 miles to the south with the Pawnee Trail passing nearby to the east.
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Final Reports of the United States Geological Survey of Nebraska and Portions of the Adjacent Territories
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and anticipating the roles Western Kansas farmland and the railroad would play in hard wheat production,
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the UP made the decision to realign the tracks to a straight alignment and cut across the river bottoms.
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While developing the cement mill, Erasmus Haworth commented that oil would be discovered someday in the
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built of Fort Hays Limestone from the bluffs. Photographing these and other features of the rail line,
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Other communities with active and defunct Portland cement plants that used the Fort Hays Limestone:
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around the outskirts of the High Plains that were founded to use Fort Hays Limestone to manufacture
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of cement compared to the lower cement shipping rates charged to manufactures in Missouri (between
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Morrison, Denise (March 28, 2018). "History question about the Union Station" (Email). Letter to.
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runs southeast-northwest through Yocemento, with a spur for the grain elevator and bulk supplies.
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Another of the photographs taken near the location is the more famous image that Gardner entitled
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This situation was the context of the October 1867 photographs of the Yocemento location made by
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Simon Motz, late citizen of Rome and first Mayor of Hays City (July 7, 1961). Leota Motz (ed.).
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quarry, below the limestone quarry, used at the mill for the silica component of Portland cement
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to the hill as the "long neglected" Hog Back. Much of these hilltops remain largely in pasture.
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Sale of cement to these projects was in competition with the established cement syndicates of
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Yocemento Avenue runs generally north-south through the community, connecting to Exit 153 of
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Place names in Colorado: why 700 communities were so named, 150 of Spanish or Indian origin
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Rome Avenue runs east-west through the old townsite, then runs north of the track to Hays.
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By the end of 1868, the hostilities in western Kansas had concluded and track had reached
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Alexander Gardner's 1867 photograph of the same bluffs over the future Yocemento townsite
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Hog Back is now a Station and a passing point for trains--next an agent and an operator.
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for relief from a perceived arbitrary rail freight surcharge of around 3 cents per
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Company) pressured the Union Pacific to not service Yocemento with Colorado coal.
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arrived in Hays in 1877 and built the region's first flour mill at the Rome site.
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All of the plants, including the one at Yocemento, are using oil exclusively, ...
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is building a cement mill for the U. S. Portland Cement Company at Yocemento, ...
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One of greatest contributions to Hays was when he got I. M. Yost to locate here.
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Across the continent on the Kansas Pacific Railroad: route of the 35th parallel
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of Yost and cement) was platted in 1907. A post office opened that same year.
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U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Yocemento, Kansas
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had crossed this ridge just weeks before in mid-August with companies of the
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attacked workers and settlers along the line of construction, including near
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Eyewitnesses to the Indian Wars, 1865-1890: Conquering the Southern Plains
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With that the war was over and for all practical purposes Rome was dying.
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THE KRAUS 1 SITE, 14EL313 A Keith Phase Component in West Central Kansas
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Midland Marketing Co-op elevator and bulk fertilizer chemical warehouse
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I. M. Saxton, who owns two sections of land a short distance south of
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was undercutting the face the bluff, exposing 60 feet (18 m) of "
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Years ago there was such a road and it was much traveled. It to the
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to run along the north side of the Kansas Pacific tracks, making two
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The map records the title for the quarry and plant sites is held by
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it was said on their Western Kansas competitor. About this time the
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Yocemento Avenue approaching the old mill buildings from the south
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The United States Portland Cement Company was founded by partners
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passed over the distant Hog Back on his first hunting contracts.
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and that whole area changed dramatically with the coming of the
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routes, it was the most direct route from the East to Denver.
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The rapid construction of track to Salina and up through the
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Yocemento and the Hog Back; exposed Fort Hays Limestone and
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also photographed the Hog Back between Hays City and Ellis.
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Erasmus Haworth was the founder and first president of the
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Across the Continent on the Union Pacific Railway, E. D.
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retreated from the west to the weeks-old settlement of
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1963:"Hays Had Its Beginning In 1867 With Founding of Rome" 1691:"Cement plant closure opens door to uncertain future" 920:(then second-largest in the country) and to pave the 3597: 3595: 2114:
Leota Motz, wife of late Frank Motz (July 6, 1961).
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African Americans on the Great Plains: An Anthology
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September 23, 1916. p. 1 3412:Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Science 797:" normally covered by grass on other slopes. 698:The late-August and September battles on the 8: 4046:Kansas 2005–2006 Official Transportation Map 3061: 3059: 2443:continue the activity in the saloon traffic. 1582: 1580: 1578: 1349:"General Highway Map – Ellis County, Kansas" 689:2016 reenactment of the Robert Benecke photo 390:. These bluffs are the local outcrop of the 3996:"General Highway Map, Ellis County, Kansas" 3573:. Salina, Kansas. March 4, 1951. p. 13 2919:. Kansas Historical Society. Archived from 2917:"Kansas Post Offices, 1828–1961 (archived)" 2832: 2830: 2828: 2826: 2824: 2822: 2820: 2818: 2816: 2814: 2779: 2777: 2775: 2764:: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list ( 1658: 1656: 1633: 1631: 1466: 1464: 1462: 1460: 1343: 1341: 1339: 1337: 1123:Yocemento is 1 mile (1.6 km) south of 1087:along the north of the track to Yocemento. 866:" by the first decades of the 20th century. 663:Westward The Course of Empire Takes Its Way 398:, the first state geologist of Kansas, and 394:. Established in 1906 by business partners 4167: 4153: 4145: 3863: 3861: 3859: 3448:Russell T. Runnels; Ira M. Dubins (1949). 3079:, Ellsworth County, Kansas. March 30, 1916 3006: 3004: 2184:: CS1 maint: location missing publisher ( 2117:"Founding of Hays (continued from page 2)" 2099:: CS1 maint: location missing publisher ( 1857:"Defense of the Kansas Frontier 1866-1867" 1850: 1848: 1713: 1711: 1685: 1683: 1411:. Ellis, Kansas. April 20, 1886. p. 4 710:before hostilities resumed in April 1868. 564:would win the race to Fort Kearny and the 21: 3603:"Western Kansas Gets Bid on US40 Project" 2300: 2298: 1613: 1611: 1521: 1519: 1517: 4113:List of books about Ellis County, Kansas 3869:"City of Hays / Ellis County GIS Viewer" 3288: 3286: 1818:National Trust for Historic Preservation 1552: 1550: 934:was built with cement made in Yocemento. 556:to Fort Riley, and then progress up the 497:By the early 19th century, however, the 4246:Map of Kansas highlighting Ellis County 3889:"2003–2004 Official Transportation Map" 2911: 2909: 2047:. Hays Convention & Visitors Bureau 1527:"Extinct Towns of Ellis County, Kansas" 1276: 836:. He previously had been frustrated in 789:studied the site in 1871. At the time, 666:. Taken days before the signing of the 474:Early 18th-century French cartographer 329: 305: 271: 263: 245: 199: 164: 98: 39: 3845:During the 1920's and 1930's [ 3759:. Chicago: Geo. A. Ogle & Co. 1922 3756:Standard Atlas of Ellis County, Kansas 3315:. Chicago: Geo. A. Ogle & Co. 1922 3312:Standard Atlas of Ellis County, Kansas 3266:The Traffic World and Traffic Bulletin 2987:. International Trade Press: 111. 1906 2757: 2643:long neglected hills of old "Hog Back" 2631:. Hays, Kansas. May 5, 1908. p. 1 2177: 2092: 1474:Standard Atlas of Ellis County, Kansas 1382:David Rumsey Historical Map Collection 1288: 1286: 1284: 1282: 1280: 999:bought the company for $ 165,000 in a 721:, and tourism in Kansas and Colorado. 4477:Cement companies of the United States 4020:"Official 1960–61 Kansas Highway Map" 2336:. Stackpole Books. pp. 102–117. 2063: 2061: 1887:Kansas Pacific An Illustrated History 1795:, Kansas Department of Transportation 1181:The Kansas Pacific (KP) line of the 482:) villages on the upper forks of the 339: 317: 288: 253: 233: 221: 209: 75: 7: 3712:"Hangman's Bridge Hays City, Kansas" 3386:"Haworth Develops Area Oil Industry" 3205:"The Cement Mill, Yocemento, Kansas" 3093:in shape and start running it again. 2734:"The imaginary gold mines of Kansas" 2226:. In Braithwaite, Charles A. (ed.). 1647:Geological Survey Professional Paper 1378:"The Official State Atlas of Kansas" 402:, leading businessman and miller of 4083:"Noose Road changed to Rome Avenue" 4027:Kansas Department of Transportation 3896:Kansas Department of Transportation 3488:. Hays, Kansas: 4. February 2, 1910 1356:Kansas Department of Transportation 1138:Yocemento lies across the banks of 725:had been founded and by 1873 had a 532:August 2, 1867, action between the 4175:Municipalities and communities of 3786:. Ellis, Kansas: 3. March 12, 1915 2952:. Western & Company: 458. 1907 2894:Plan of Yocemento, Mill and Ground 2687:, United States Geologist (1871). 2162:Ups & Downs of an Army Officer 2077:Ups & Downs of an Army Officer 1855:Marvin H. Garfield (August 1932). 1649:. U.S. Department of the Interior. 1250:Portland, Fremont County, Colorado 1026:been remodeled into family homes. 631:One of these Gardner photographs, 524:Railroad construction and conflict 14: 3841:At Home in Ellis County 1867–1992 3384:Willie Mannebach (July 4, 1976). 3294:At Home in Ellis County 1867–1992 3106:At Home in Ellis County 1867–1992 2793:. Hays, Kansas. November 11, 1950 2366:At Home in Ellis County 1867–1992 2267:"How "Buffalo Bill" Won His Name" 1498:"Ellis County T. 13 S., R. 19 W." 1246:(Western Portland Cement Company) 773:is 1 mile (1.6 km) north on 143: 113: 3526:. Hays, Kansas. February 2, 1907 2306:Alexander Gardner (photographer) 2200:Alexander Gardner (photographer) 2041:"Cheyenne Indian Raid Gravesite" 1477:. Chicago: Geo. A. Ogle & Co 991:Remaining cement mill structures 142: 135: 112: 105: 77: 54: 41: 3466:is common in the Fort Hays, ... 3012:"Historical Mt. Allen Cemetery" 2602:Kansas State Historical Society 3716:The Historical Marker Database 3632:"Signal Sunday: Yocemento, KS" 3547:tunneling through the Hog Back 2946:Engineering and Mining Journal 2164:. Washington, D.C. p. 253 2079:. Washington, D.C. p. 253 1376:L.H. Everts & Co. (1887). 1: 3969:"Midland Marketing Locations" 3737:On the Kansas Pacific Railway 3668:On the Kansas Pacific Railway 3638:. Western Railroad Discussion 2551:On the Kansas Pacific Railway 2535:On the Kansas Pacific Railway 2519:On the Kansas Pacific Railway 2494:On the Kansas Pacific Railway 1812:Carson Bear (April 4, 2018). 1761:Howard C. Raynesford (1953). 1010:for use as a community hall. 544:In 1867, construction of the 448: 407: 156:Show map of the United States 3630:nwkrailfan (July 21, 2013). 3112:Union Station in Kansas City 2236:University of Nebraska Press 801:U.S. Portland Cement Company 752:Unsuitable for wheat farming 486:(Big Creek lies between the 3344:The William F. Cody Archive 3340:"Blueprint of Rome, Kansas" 2571:The William F. Cody Archive 2425:Leota Motz (July 7, 1961). 1998:The William F. Cody Archive 1939:. Kansas Historical Society 1863:. Kansas Historical Society 1861:Kansas Historical Quarterly 4513: 4110: 3923:. Kansas Press Association 3784:The Ellis Review-Headlight 3566:"Hays Bridge Contract Let" 2850:. May 24, 1959. p. 12 2124:. Hays, Kansas. p. 29 1789:19th Century Kansas Trails 1503:. Kansas Geological Survey 1317:. May 24, 1959. p. 12 893:, near time of abandonment 891:Fort Hays Limestone Member 694:The railroad comes through 613:Battle of the Saline River 406:, Yocemento is one of the 268:2,051 ft (625 m) 4432: 4239: 4189: 3366:. Midland Marketing Co-op 2704:At Hays City the massive 2594:Francis S. Laing (1910). 2222:Leiker, James N. (2009). 2045:Visit Hays (Things To Do) 1974:. p. 27 – via 1443:. 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Unincorporated community
Yocemento and the bluffs that gave rise to its brief industry Alexander Gardner's 1867 photograph of the same bluffs over the future Yocemento townsite
Alexander Gardner's 1867 photograph of the same bluffs over the future Yocemento townsite

KDOT map of Ellis County (legend)
KDOT
Ellis County
legend
Yocemento is located in Kansas
Yocemento is located in the United States
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Big Creek
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GNIS ID
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