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Inventory of the Santa Cruz Portland Cement Company Records
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Title: Santa Cruz Portland Cement Company records
Dates: 1909-1925
Collection number: MS 303
Creator:
Santa Cruz Portland Cement Company
Collection Size:
2 flats
Repository:
University of California, Santa Cruz. University Library.
Special Collections and Archives
Santa Cruz, California 95064
Abstract: This collection contains two ledger books from the Santa Cruz Portland Cement Company.
Physical location: Stored in Special Collections & Archives: Advance notice is required for access to the papers.
Languages:
Languages represented in the collection:
English
Collection open for research.
Property rights reside with the University of California. Literary rights are retained by the creators of the records and
their heirs. For permission to publish or to reproduce the material, please contact the Head of Special Collections and Archives.
Santa Cruz Portland Cement Company records. MS 303. Special Collections and Archives, University Library, University of
California, Santa Cruz.
Gift of the Younger family.
Eleven miles north of Santa Cruz on Highway 1, sits Davenport, the home of Pacific Cement and Aggregates, Inc, since 1965,
Lone Star Industries Inc. The company started out in 1906 as the Santa Cruz Portland Cement Company when it bought the ancient
kilns and lime strata developed by John Q. Packard and F. W. Billing. By 1907, the company had built its plant on it 6000
acre site about a mile below Davenport Landing, and the name of Davenport was given to the new cement company town that began
to develop.
In 1923 the Santa Cruz Portland Cement company purchased a narrow gauge electric railroad from a mine at Juneau, Alaska and
installed it at Davenport, improving its method of hauling the limestone from quarry to plant.
By 1934 the company had built tall storage silos at the plant and a steel pier which carried forced air pipes out through
the lines, with pumps and air compressors. The
Santacruzcement, the first bulk ship on the Pacific Coast and owned by the company, received her first load of cement at the new pier in
1934.
On March 13, 1956, Santa Cruz Portland Cement Company was sold to Pacific Coast Aggregates.
Scope and Content of Collection
This collection contains two ledger books; Purchase Record, 1909-1921 and Segregated Inventory, 1921-1925.
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in
the library's online public access catalog.
Santa Cruz Portland Cement Co.--Archives
Mines and mineral resources--California--Santa Cruz County
Portland cement--California--Davenport
Silica--California--Davenport