Hess & Moog, St. Cloud. Clay and brick (buff). (World’s Columbian Exposition 1893 Official Catelog, Part V, Mines and Mining Building, Department E, W. B. Conkey, Chicago, 1893, Page 80)
Hess & Moog, brick manufacturers at St. Cloud, Minn., have discovered a bed of clay that is well adapted to making pressed brick. They contemplate putting in a plant soon to manufacture pressed brick. (Paving and Municipal Engineering, Volume VIII, Municipal Engineering Company, Indianapolis, January to July 1895, Page 160)
Hess & Moog, St. Cloud…Buff brick. (Eighteenth Annual Report of the United States Geological Survey to the Secretary of the Interior 1896-97, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1897, Page 1116)
St. Paul Firms Do Well. Get Nearly All Contracts for New Reform School. St. Paul bidders captured nearly all of the contracts in connection with the construction of the new state reform school building at St. Cloud, the building of which will be pushed to an immediate completion. The board of managers met at the Merchants’ hotel last evening and awarded the various contracts. The new building will be about 150 by 60 feet in size and will have four tiers of cells, accommodating in all 144 cells. The bids awarded last evening were as follows: …Common Brick – Hess & Moog, St. Cloud… (The Saint Paul Globe, Thursday Morning, June 10, 1897, Volume XX, Number 161, Page 8)
Henry Hess has bought the interest of his partner, Mr. Moog, in the St. Cloud, Minn., yard which has been run for many years under the name of Hess & Moog. (Clay Record, Clay Record Publishing Company, Chicago, IL, May 31, 1905, Volume XXVI, Number 10, Page 36)
A pleasing and interesting feature of the Middle West Convention, held in Chicago, Jan. 17-19, was the exhibit displayed by the various manufacturers of clay products in attendance. Among the exhibits were light colored common face brick, by Hess & Moog, of St. Paul (Cloud), Minn. (Brick and Clay Record, Kenfield-Leach Company, Chicago, February 1, 1911, Volume XXXVIII, Number 3, Page 173)