Page 113. Dr. E. N. Morehouse makes brick from a bluish, yellow, washed clay, near Owatonna. He puts in the clay about one-third sand. He makes 225,000 bricks a year, for which he charges $8.00 to $12 per thousand, according to quality. He uses 50 cords of wood for every 100,000 of bricks. The wood costs $3.00 per cord at the place of cutting. The bricks are, like all of those made from
Page 114. the washed clay, not first-class. Dr. Morehouse has experimented on making unglazed red ware from his clay, with fair results. (The Geological and Natural History Survey of Minnesota, The Fourth Annual Report, For The Year 1875, N. H. Winchell & M. W. Harrington, The Pioneer-Press Company, St. Paul, 1876)
Dr. E. N. Morehouse makes common brick from a bluish, yellow washed clay, near Owatonna. He puts in the clay about one-third sand. He makes 225,000 bricks a year, using fifty cords of wood for every 100,000 of bricks. The bricks are, like all of those made from the washed clay, not first-class. Dr. Morehouse has experimented on making unglazed red ware from his clay, with fair results. (The Geological and Natural History Survey of Minnesota, Volume I, 1872-1882, N. H. Winchell and Warren Upham, Johnson, Smith & Harrison, Minneapolis, Minnesota, 1884, Page 403)