At Carver the clay used occurs 50 to 90 feet above the river, as a stratum from 30 to 40 feet thick, overlain and underlain by sand, being included in the modified drift which formerly filled this part of the valley. It probably was deposited during the retreat of the ice-sheet which overspread this region, as shown by the interglacial clay at Chaska, after the valley had been excavated between its bluffs of till. …Andrew Ahlin, about two-thirds of a mile southwest from Carver, has two yards, his annual product being from one to one and a half millions. (The Geological and Natural History Survey of Minnesota, The Eighth Annual Report for the Year 1879, Submitted to the President of the University, Feb. 18, 1880, The Pioneer Press Company, St. Paul, MN, 1880, Page 119)
Ahlin & Son…Carver (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)
The brick yards are operated, one by J. M. Nye & Co., which made last year 1,250,000 brick; the other by Ahline & Co. (History of the Minnesota Valley, Including the Explorers and Pioneers of Minnesota, Rev. Edward D. Neill, North Star Publishing Company, Minneapolis, 1882, Page 369)
Page 145. About two-thirds of a mile southwest from Carver, Andrew Ahlin has two yards, his product of bricks, like the last in color and quality, being from one to one and a half millions yearly. The oldest of these yards has been worked ten years. Its clay requires no sand for tempering. The section is yellow sand and gravel at the top, 15 feet; clay, yellow for its upper one or two feet, and below dark bluish, with a total thickness of 35 feet, the upper
Page 146. 20 feet of which is employed for brick-making, the lower part not being used because it would require some intermixture of sand; underlain by fine, white sand, which is known to extend 15 feet. The height of this bed of clay is estimated to be from 70 to 105 feet above the river. Mr. Ahlin’s second yard, opened in 1879, is some forty rods northeast from the foregoing. It at firs worked a slide of clay, lying about 40 feet above the river; but the adjoining bank to the height of a hundred feet is found by borings to be clay, yellow for 5 or 10 feet near the surface and dark blue below. (A Report on the Geological and Natural History Survey of Minnesota, 1882-1885, Volume II, N. H. Winchell and Warren Upham, Pioneer Press Company, St. Paul, Minnesota, 1888)
Reply of Ahlin & Son, of Carver, Minn., manufacturers of brick. [Established 1876.] In 1893 we only run half the time, on account of poor demand and low prices. There has been a reduction of 25 per cent in wages. The free-trade agitation is the main cause of depression. A tariff to protect United States industry is the only remedy we can see to help our workingmen from starvation and have our money in circulation in this country. High tariff keeps our money in this country, and work for our workingmen. Free trade drives our money away, and our men are without work, and consequently hard times will follow. Reduction of duty on goods must be met by reducing wages accordingly and is the only remedy we see. We employ 28 men and 4 boys; 8 men at $1.75 per day, 20 men at $1.50 per day; 4 boys at $1 per day. (Replies to Tariff Inquiries, Bulletin No. 6, Committee on Finance, United States Senate, Schedule B, Earths, Earthenware, and Glassware, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1894, Page 145)
Mr. A. P. Ahlin, Carver, Minn., has sold several thousand brick to the M. & St. L. Railroad Co. and recently shipped the consignment to Cedar Lake for the erection of the new shops. (Brick and Clay Record, Windsor & Kenfield Publishing Company, Chicago, IL, Volume XII, Number 3, March 1900, Page 143)