Brick Yard Review. Many Improvements Made About the Yards and a Busy Season Looked For. For the past several years it has been our custom to review the brick yards of our pretty little city and this year we make no exception and endeavor to give you a short write-up of the different yards, improvements made, capacity, and men employed, and below publish the same; Riedele & Casper. This is the new firm which was organized last year, and which erected the mammoth kiln on the old Schlafle yard which they purchased. The kiln is one of the sights of our cities, as the smoke stack towers way up in the sky. Their output is heavy and report a most prosperous season. (Weekly Valley Herald, Thursday, May 21, 1903, Volume XLI, Number 35, Page 1)
Page 252. Chaska. Brick and Tile – 1903. Riedel & Caspar. Total Number Wage Earners - 82. Adult Males - 76. Males Under 16 Years – 6. Number of Hours Each Day - 10. Number of Hours Each Week - 60. Average Number Weeks Operated During 1902 - 22. Number Employed between 6 p.m. and 7 a.m. – 6. Number Persons Regularly Employed Sunday – 6. Established in Year – Illegible.
Page 253. 1904. Total Number Wage Earners - 90. Adult Males (Office Force) – 2. Adult Males (Excluding Office Force) - 88. Number of Hours Each Day - 10. Number of Hours Each Week - 60. Average Number Weeks Operated Last Year - 21. Number Employed between 6 p.m. and 7 a.m. - 4. Number Persons Regularly Employed on Sunday - 4. Changes in Name of Firm or New Inspections – None. (Ninth Biennial Report of the Bureau of Labor of the State of Minnesota, 1903-1904, Volume 2, Great Western Printing Company, 1904)