The brick business of Chaska is proving quite an item. There is one firm capable of manufacturing 30,000 per day – another, 7,000. The former firm employ eighteen men, and within the last three weeks have moulded 300,000 brick and burnt one kiln containing 200,000, and have another ready to set fire to containing 150,000. The brick made are of the best quality, and sell for $12 to $14 per thousand. (Winona Daily Republican, Wednesday, August 28, 1867, Page 2)
A great many green brick have been damaged this season in this State, by the severe rains. One man in Chaska lost 100,000. (Winona Daily Republican, Wednesday, June 30, 1869, Page 2)
Montevideo, Chippewa Co., has a new school house costing between 11,000 and $12,000. The building is two stories above the basement and veneered with the cream brick of Chaska. (New Ulm Weekly Review, Wednesday, September 15, 1880, Volume III, Number 38, Page 2)
The four brick yards of Chaska, Carver county, turned out the last season 10,100,000 bricks. They were shipped to all parts of the State and to portions of Iowa and Wisconsin. The greater part, however, went to St. Paul and Minneapolis. (Saint Paul Daily Globe, Tuesday Morning, November 16, 1880, Volume III, Number 321, Page 2)
Everett Aughenbough & Co. have begun work on a new mill at Waseca, Minn., to be constructed on the site of the one burned several weeks ago. The new mill will be of 500 barrels daily capacity, five stories high, built of Chaska brick. (Winona Daily Republican, Wednesday, March 4, 1891, Page 1)
The Chaska brick manufacturing company turns out daily between 90,000 and 100,000 of the pure cream brick. (Winona Daily Republican, Thursday, July 24, 1873, Page 2)
Fatal Fire at Chaska, Minn. Chaska, Minn., July 13. – The Nameless brick machine works, foundry and wagon factory, owned by Bierline Bros. was consumed by fire at 5 o’clock p.m. Jerry Ehman, one of the factory hands, was terribly burned, and his recovery is doubtful. His flesh was burned to a crisp. Rev. C. A. Haahnle, who was near by, was also badly burned while trying to tear and extinguish the burning clothing from Jerry Ehman. Several barns and a house near by were also burned, and the total loss will reach $10,000, with only $2,000 insurance. (Winona Daily Republican, Monday, July 13, 1891, Page 4)
Minnesota Patents. Special to the Globe. WASHINGTON, D. C., Feb. 27. – The following Minnesota inventors received patents this week, as reported by James F. Williamson, patent attorney, 929-933 Guaranty Loan Building, Minneapolis, and 412 Pioneer Press building, St. Paul: …Michael Bierline, Chaska, brick machine… (The Saint Paul Daily Globe, Sunday Morning, February 28, 1892, Volume XIV, Number 59, Page 5)
The city hall and public library presented to Faribault, Minn., by Frank E. Little of Minneapolis, is the most imposing structure in Faribault. The building is three stories high. The foundation is of Faribault limestone and the other stonework is of Lake Superior brown sandstone. Chaska cream-colored brick were used with facings of red pressed brick. The trimmings are very elaborate. (Winona Daily Republican, Tuesday, August 13, 1895, Page 2)