Near the centre of section 35, Eagle Valley, two miles southeast from Clarissa, brick-making was begun in 1880 by George G. Howe. His product in 1880 was 80,000, and in 1881 about 125,000, selling at $8 per thousand. They are of good, durable quality, and are cream-colored, excepting near the outside of the kiln where their color is reddish. Mr. Howe also makes curved bricks for wells, at $10 per thousand. The clay used is gray, levelly stratified, exposed by the excavation to a depth of five or six feet. It contains limy concretions in some parts, which are therefore rejected. No sand is added. This locality is in the valley of a little brook, the slopes which rise near on each side being ordinary till. (A Report on the Geological and Natural History Survey of Minnesota, 1882-1885, The Geology of Minnesota, Volume II, N. H. Winchell and Warren Upham, Pioneer Press Company, St. Paul, Minnesota, 1888, Page 577)
In section 35, Eagle Valley township, brick-making commenced in 1880, and 80,000 in 1880, and 125,000 in 1881 were produced. The maker, George G. Howe, also made curved brick for well curbing purposes which sold readily at ten dollars per thousand. Other brick-kilns were established in this county, after modern methods, about 1878, and in a few years it had come to be a large, profitable industry. (History of Morrison and Todd Counties Minnesota, Volume I, Their People, Industries and Institutions, Clara K. Fuller, B. F. Bowen & Company, Inc., Indianapolis, Indiana, 1915, Page 214)