The Blakely (Minn.) Brick & Terra Cotta Co. has been incorporated with a capital stock of $50,000 by M. S. Dean, of Anaconda, Mont.; R. L. Clinton, of Butte, Mont.; Fred Stealing, of Missoula, Mont., and T. N. Dean, of Blakely, Minn. (Brick and Clay Record, Windsor & Kenfield Publishing Company, Chicago, IL, July 1901, Volume XV, Number 1, Page 36)
At Blakely a deposit has been used in the manufacture of cream-colored brick. It consists of laminated clay about 30 feet thick the upper half of which shows the common weathered yellow color, characteristic of these clays. The extent of the deposit is uncertain on account of the talus from the overlying hill of drift, but it can be traced for some distance along the Minnesota River bluff. A plant established here has been operated steadily since about 1890, making common brick. Recently a large proportion of hollow brick have been made with a stiff-mud machine which has a capacity of about 35,000 brick per day. (Clays and Shales of Minnesota, Frank F. Grout and E. K. Soper, The University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, 1914, Page 155)