Alsop Sand Company

In 1931, John H. (Jack) Alsop founded Alsop Sand Company at Wakefield, Kansas.

An additional sand operation was opened near Scandia, Kansas about 1950. Jack Alsop died suddenly in 1953, his son-in-law, Henry (Pete) Barclay received a hardship discharge from the Air Force to assume the role as general manager of the family business. He was just 22 years old.

The relocation of the town of Wakefield, due to the creation of Milford Reservoir, brought the company into the ready-mix concrete business and eventually lead to plants in Belleville, Mankato and Clay Center, Kansas during the history of the company.

Pete became the company President in 1972 and in 1987 purchased Fyfe Sand in Concordia, Kansas, establishing the company office at that location. His son Dane Barclay, took over day to day operations as President of the company in the 1990’s. The company continued concentrating on road building materials and sold the ready-mix plants. Additional sand plants in the Salina and Abilene areas through 2017. In 2014, Tynan Barclay joined the staff of Alsop Sand Co Inc. He is the great grandson of John H. Alsop.

Today, locations in Concordia and Scandia, continue to produce the high-quality road building materials. Alsop Sand also produces crushed and processed limestone at the Scandia location and sells stockpiled RAP (millings) from Republic, Cloud, Lincoln and Ellsworth & Counties.

Hall Brothers Construction

Hall Brothers Construction was established in 1917 by Ed and Percy Hall. Later, Fred, Jack, and Vernon Hall joined their brothers. In 1964, Al and Wanda Kistner, son-in-law and daughter of Jack Hall, added their business experience and in 1972 gained ownership of the company. Richard Hall Kistner, son of Al and Wanda Kistner, became President of the company in 1992. Robert Lauer became a partner of Hall Brothers, Inc. in November of 2005 and is Hall's President/General Manager. Hall Brothers Construction Co, Inc. became Hall Brothers, Inc. in 2006.

Hall Brothers, Inc. purchased their first hot mix asphalt plant in the 1950’s, and at the present time currently have three in operation. These plants are capable of producing 300 tons per hour of hot mix asphalt. From the 1950’s to the present, the business has been involved in asphalt paving and has completed many projects ranging from paving secondary roads to Kansas primary highway system and Interstate highway system. Hall Brothers Construction Company, Inc. is pre-qualified by the Kansas Department of Transportation for asphalt paving, aggregate base, chip seal, cold mix, curb and gutter, and aggregate surfacing.  They have been recognized nationally for their high standards of both Quality and Safety. 

Hall Brothers, Inc. also became involved in aggregate production with their acquisition of Blue River Sand & Gravel Co., in 1982. They produce material for construction projects and ready mix concrete plants in northeast Kansas.

In 2009, Hall Brothers International Co., LTD. performed their first international project, approximately 60 kilometers of 6 lane Utrathin Bonded Pavement for the Ministry of Transport, Vietnam, from Sai Gon to Trung Luong. 

Their mission is to provide services to the construction industry that emphasizes the safest, most environmentally sound, highest quality, most cost-efficient, and innovative construction methods consistent with the highest standards of integrity.

Klaver Construction, Inc.

Klaver Construction was founded in June of 1945 by Bill Klaver, Sr. The new company had very few assets but no shortage of desire and vision. Its first job was a curb and gutter project in Hugoton, Kansas, for Broce Construction. In the early years the company did almost exclusively curb and gutter and municipal concrete paving. During the mid-1960s Klaver Construction started doing box culvert work, primarily extending existing culverts, to allow for highway widening. On January 1, 1996, Klaver joined the Sherwood Companies.

Today, the majority of Klaver Construction Company, Inc.’s work involves concrete box culverts and reinforced concrete box bridges. The Company’s area of operation is all of Kansas and Oklahoma but has also included an occasional project in Arkansas and Texas. Klaver thrives on large, difficult structures that many of its peers shy away from. Klaver is known and respected by the states’ DOT and prime contractors alike for the quality of their work and their integrity.

A small but significant niche for Klaver Construction is the sale and rental of portable concrete median barriers (Type F3). In the early 2000s, Klaver realized there would be a tremendous need for these barriers as the old style median barriers were being phased out in favor of the F3 barrier. The Company devised a forming system and started producing the barriers in conformity with the new specifications. Within several years, Klaver manufactured several hundred thousand feet of this new product. Although no longer producing the barriers, the Company has become very proficient at setting barriers, sometimes totaling tens of thousands of lineal feet per project for prime contractors on large interstate highway projects.

Walters-Morgan Construction, Inc.

The heritage of Walters-Morgan Construction, Inc. (WMCI) begins with Dr. J.D. Walters, who in 1877 became the first Professor of Architecture at KansasState University. His son founded Walters Sand Company in 1925 and then broadened into the municipal construction field in 1938 with the formation of Walters Construction Company, Inc. The companies were combined as a material supplier and builder until 1947, when Walters Construction Company, Inc. began specializing exclusively in construction services. The company changed its name to Walters-Morgan Construction, Inc. in 1985. 

Today, Walters-Morgan Construction, Inc. continues as a locally owned Manhattan, Kansas based general contractor specializing in the construction of water and wastewater treatment plants and other municipal utilities. The company is owned and managed by an experienced management team of construction professionals, each with many yeas of experience in the civil construction arena. 

The company has constructed civil and environmental projects in nearly every county in Kansas along with many projects in Oklahoma, Iowa, and Nebraska. Many of the earliest centralized municipal water and wastewater systems in Kansas were built by WMCI. Our largest completed project to date is the Manhattan, Kansas Wastewater Treatment Plant Upgrade Expansion valued at $23.6 million. In partnership with engineering firms, WMCI has also completed numerous negotiated design/build projects, resulting in significant cost efficiencies for the municipal owners.