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History of Cedar Grove Cemetery & Drake Cement. Note the underground tunnels in pic related.
http://www.apcrp.org/BLOCK_KATHY/TALE_OF_TWO_TOWNS/A_Tale_of_Two_Towns_Mast.htm
Drake Cement acquired 70 acres, over 5,000 of mining claims and 144 acres of private land from Stirling Bridge. After a lengthy process of environmental reviews (since some of the claims were on Chino Valley Ranger District of the Prescott National Forest), Drake Cement was able to build a state-of-the-art cement plant ten years later. The Grand Opening was on June 17, 2011. It has a quarry about a quarter mile away that supplies it with limestone and silica. It imports coal from S.W. Colorado to fuel the plant and has a rail connecting it to the Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railroad. Unlike a coal-fired plant, the cement plant doesn't have coal ash waste because the ash is incorporated into the cement.
They state that “over the long term, the Drake plant will provide dozens of new, high quality manufacturing jobs and economic development in Northern Arizona.” At present 20 to 56 people are employed there. The construction phase employed up to 600 people! The plant cost about $300 million to build. It is the first cement facility built in any county in Arizona in the past 50 years and marks Drake's first facility west of the Mississippi River in decades. The plant is expected to last 50 to 100 years, with an annual revenue of $6 to $10 million. It's “sister company” is Drake Materials, a Redi Mix company, in Scottsdale. Surprisingly, it is a subsidiary of Cementos Lima, the largest cement company in Peru!
Drake Cement has built around the old Cedar Glade Cemetery and protects it with a fence enclosing the graves of those early workers and settlers in Cedar Glade. See APCRP Cedar Glade for more details.
In summary, two towns, which formed in the early 1900s as “bookends” on each side of Hell Canyon were Puntenney and Cedar Glade. There are two cemeteries and various ruins of buildings and kilns that can be seen. Some are protected by the Forest Service. A few trivia: Supposedly actor Walter Brennan (1894 to 1974) was in this area during filming of “How the West Was Won” and fell in love with the area and bought one of the quarries. The film itself may show a brief glimpse of the old RR trestle. (1962, narrated by Spencer Tracy.)