Fritz Koch, President Twin City Brick Company – We have just refused an order for 1,000,000 brick, simply because the demand is so good that we can’t fill the order at present.  We are making 20,000 brick per day, and have six kilns.  In one of these kilns we can burn 600,000 at once.  We are building another kiln in which we can burn 1,000,000 brick at once.  We have about a million on hand.  I used to burn 1,000,000 at a time in the kilns in Holland.  These St. Paul pressed brick can be used anywhere, and are made either red or buff in color.  We are filling a large order now for buff-colored brick for a large house to be built at Central Park.  We made most of the brick for St. Luke’s hospital and other prominent buildings.  It seems to be almost impossible to exhaust our clay banks on the West side, and we are pleased with the patronage we receive.

Source:
The Saint Paul Daily Globe
Sunday Morning, October 30, 1892
Volume XIV, Number 304, Page 3

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Northwest Patents.

WASHINGTON, Nov. 4. – List of patents issued this week to Northwestern inventors, reported by Merwin, Lothrop & Johnson, patent attorneys, 911 and 912 Pioneer Press Building, St. Paul, Minn., and Washington, D. C.:

…;  Koch, Fritz, St. Paul, brick kiln; …

Source:
The Saint Paul Daily Globe
Sunday Morning, November 5, 1899
Volume XXII, Number 309, Page 8

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COMMERCIAL CLUB MEMBERS.

Twenty-One Additional Names Have Been Added to the Roster.

The following have been newly elected to membership in the Commercial club.

…; Koch, Fritz, president Twin City Brick company; …

Source:
The Saint Paul Globe
Saturday Morning, May 10, 1902
Volume XXV, Number 130, Page 12

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THEY STOP WORKING

Brickmakers Quit, but Company Says There Are Only 10

Brickmakers to the number of fifty, according to the union, and ten according to the officers of the St. Paul Brick company, struck yesterday at the West Side plant.

The union men assert that they yesterday induced twelve non-union men to join the strike, and that there is promise of more joining them today.  This, the men say, gives them good reason for believing that they will win the contest with the company, and that they will be taken back and permitted to maintain their membership in the union.

Fritz Koch, president of the brick company, directly contradicts the statements of the strikers, saying that the concern originally employed but seventy men.  Seven were discharged for agitating unionism, ten struck on the order from the union, and all the others remain.

Mr. Koch says that he does not object to the strikers picketing the yards, if they do not resort to violence.  Mr. Koch admits that he told the members of the union that they must stop agitating if they desired to remain in the employ of the company.

Source:
The Saint Paul Daily Globe
Tuesday Morning, June 28, 1904
Volume XXVII, Number 180, Page 2