The Northern Pressed Brick Co., Crookston, Minn., are preparing to start up their plant which has been idle for two years, increasing its capacity very materially. The company is reorganized as the Boukind-Carlson Brick Co., with $20,000 capital stock. (Clay Record, Clay Record Publishing Company, Chicago, March 30, 1910, Volume XXXVI, Number 6, Page 40)
Boukind-Carlson Brick Company Takes Over Brick Plant. Crookston, Minn., March 26. – The articles of incorporation of the Boukind-Carlson Brick Company have been filed with the secretary of state, capital stock $200,000. This concern has taken over the entire plant of the Northern Pressed Brick Company of this city and has started preparations for the manufacture of common and pressed brick. The incorporators are Peter Boukind, Rudolph Carlson and Senator A. D. Stephens of Crookston, Marcus Johnson of Stillwater and W. J. Murphy of Minneapolis. The officers are Rudolph Carlson, president; Marcus Johnson, vice president; Peter Boukind, secretary and treasurer, and Messrs. Carlson and Boukind will have active management of the new concern, Mr. Boukind having charge of the office and business end while Mr. Carlson will have charge of the manufacturing end. (Clay Record, Clay Record Publishing Company, Chicago, March 30, 1910, Volume XXXVI, Number 6, Page 37)
Receipts from Incorporation Fees. Mar. 26. Boukind Carlson Brick Co…$50.00 (Annual Report of the State Treasurer of Minnesota for the Fiscal Year Ending July 31, 1910, Syndicate Printing Company, Minneapolis, 1910, Page 118)
The Boukind-Carlson Brick Co., of Crookston, Minn., are planning to build a brick silo on their local fair grounds for the fair, next fall. (Brick and Clay Record, Kenfield-Leach Company, Chicago, March 15, 1911, Volume XXXVIII, Number 6, Page 322)
The brick plant of Boukind & Carlson of Crookston, Minn., which has not been operated for three years, was completely destroyed by fire recently. (The Clay Worker, Industrial Publications, Inc., Chicago, May 1918, Volume LXIX, Number 5, Page 684)
Two companies are operating on laminated clays at Crookston. The Boukind Carlson Brick Co. has a deposit within the city limits which can be traced along the river and is known to a depth of at least 12 feet. It is covered only with soil and is underlain by brown and blue clay of unknown thickness. It contains a few limestone pebbles and limy concretions. The plant produces about 4,000,000 common brick a season by a soft-mud process. The fuel has been wood, but recently oil fuel has been tried. (Clays and Shales of Minnesota, Frank F. Grout with contributions by E. K. Soper, United States Geological Survey, Government Printing Office, Washington, D.C., 1919, Page 212)