Brick. There is no lack of materials for making common red brick. In some places the surface of the drift clay is used, containing some fine gravel, and at others the loess-loam. Brickmaking machinery was met with in the survey of the county at the following points: Chatfield, Wm. Stafford. (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, Page 71)
Stafford’s kiln, at Chatfield, now up, contains something over 300,000 bricks, the burning of which will require about 100 cords of wood. (The Winona Daily Republican, Friday, July 11, 1879, Page 2)
Stafford Wm…Chatfield (Minnesota State Gazetteer and Business Directory including Dakota Territory 1880-81, Volume II, R. L. Polk & Co. and A. C. Danser, St. Paul and Detroit, Page 978)
Chatfield. Stafford started fires yesterday under a fresh kiln of 500,000 brick. (The Saint Paul Daily Globe, Friday Morning, August 21, 1885, Volume VII, Number 233, Page 5)