GRIFFIN BROS. PRESSED BRICK, from their works two miles south of this city on the east side of the river.  This firm opened their clay beds only this year, but are making now about 15,000 bricks a day and next year will double this.  The cream brick are shown in a wall just as they came from the kiln without sorting, and are very handsome.  They have an especially smooth, hard surface, are of good color, are true in form, and break under the hammer straight and clean.  They are larger than the common brick, being 3x4 ½x8 ½ in the wall, and are sold kiln run at $10 per thousand and selected at $12 per M.  There is no trouble in getting plenty of face brick for a building from the kiln run, and considering the size they are but little if any more expensive than the ordinary rough variety, while they are incomparably handsomer.  They give a building an air and finish that can not be obtained with common brick, no matter how carefully handled or how well set.  The wall shown was laid by Peter Nelson, the expert brick man, who built the Catholic Cathedral in this city and the large New Munich church.  In front of the wall are specimens of face brick, in cream, red and mottled, which are beauties.  The mottled variety too is a novelty.  It has been but lately introduced to public notice and has sprung into popularity, though it commands fabulous prices, selling in Eastern markets at from $100 to $125 per thousand, while Griffin Bros. can furnish them at their yards for one-fourth that money.  These gentlemen are wide-awake, enterprising business men; they know they have a bonanza and propose to push for the recognition they deserve in the brick markets of the country.  Their works are a matter of no little profit to St. Cloud, and our citizens should remember this in their building operations.  One of the Messrs. Griffin or their gentlemanly foreman, Mr. Lewis Pertier, remains on the grounds to explain the many merits of their manufacture to the crowds of visitors.  (St. Cloud Journal-Press, Thursday, September 9, 1886)