M. C. Madsen, the brick and tile manufacturer, of Hutchinson, Minn., will open up a new brick yard at Glencoe, Minn., in the spring. A specialty will be made of sidewalk tiling. The clay at Glencoe has been tested satisfactorily.
Source:
Brick and Clay Record
Volume XX, Number 2, February 1904
Windsor & Kenfield Publishing Company, Chicago, IL
Page 76
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The Hutchinson (Minn.) Brick & Tile Works, owned by M. C. Madsen, have been doing business even during the winter months, there being a large demand among farmers for tile.
Source:
Brick and Clay Record
Volume XXX, Number 3, March 1909
Kenfield-Leach Company, Chicago, IL
Page 163
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The Hutchinson Brick & Tile Works are exceedingly busy this season and plans are now being made for extensive increase of capacity, including the building of a new drier.
Source:
Brick and Clay Record
Volume XXXI, Number 2, August 1909
Kenfield-Leach Company, Chicago, IL
Page 81
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The plant of the Hutchinson (Minn.) Brick & Tile Co. is to be improved and its capacity increased. New kilns will be built and tracks laid for an industrial railroad from the coal pit to the works.
Source:
Brick and Clay Record
Kenfield-Leach Company, Chicago, IL
Volume XXXII, Number 3, March 1910
Page 197
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MINNESOTA DRAIN TILE IN DEMAND.
Farmers are taking advantage of the season to haul tiling during the winter months and Mr. Madsen, proprietor of the Hutchinson (Minn.) Mine, Brick and Tile Works, writes to the “Clay Record” that between January 10 and February 7, over 400 loads of tiling were taken from his factory by farmers’ teams. So rapidly was his stock reduced that a number of customers hauled the tiling they required and piled it up on adjacent lots so as to make sure of getting what they wanted, and will haul it to their farms at their leisure.
During the past season about 120 cars of tiling have been taken from Mr. Madsen’s factory and all was used within hauling distance of Hutchinson. Mr. Madsen has brought experienced and expert tile layers from Illinois and during the past season forty of the these men have been at work in this vicinity.
The demand for tiling is growing so rapidly that the capacity of the factory is insufficient and will be increased as rapidly as possible. The increase provided for will permit an added output of at least one-third for the coming year.
The rapid growth of the demand for drain tile in Southern Minnesota is significant, and those well informed insist that it has not yet fairly started. When there is a full realization of the advantage to be derived from tile drainage it will not cease until practically every acre of land in this section is tile drained. It should not be understood that this is a wet region or that surface drainage is impracticable, but it has been demonstrated in other states that tiling land adds so immensely to its productivity that drainage is highly profitable.
There are a number of striking examples of what tiling will do for cold, unproductive land in this vicinity which have from time to time been referred to.
Source:
Brick and Clay Record
Kenfield-Leach Company, Chicago, IL
Volume XXXII, No. 4, April 1910
Page 229