A kiln of red bricks, used for the court-house at Buffalo, was made in 1876 on W. H. Cady's land, two miles northeast from that village. (A Report on the Geological and Natural History Survey of Minnesota, 1882-1885, The Geology of Minnesota, Volume II, N. H. Winchell and Warren Upham, Pioneer Press Company, St. Paul, Minnesota, 1888, Page 261)
Two or three attempts have been made to use the deposits around Buffalo. Many thousand brick have been made from the upper leached portion of the drift where it is relatively free from limestone. (Clays and Shales of Minnesota, Frank F. Grout and E. K. Soper, The University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, 1914, Page 170)