Fowler & Pay, Broad on C St P M & O Ry, Mankato. (Mankato City Directory, 1892, Page 531)
Fowler & Pay, N Broad nr C St P M & O Ry, Mankato. (Mankato City and Blue Earth County Directory, 1895, R. L. Polk & Co., St. Paul, 1895, Page 519)
Fowler & Pay. The products of this firm bear a very high reputation among the builders. They have been doing business here the past fifteen years. The proprietors are men who thoroughly understand their business and do a large trade. Their lime plant is located here, but their cement works are at Austin, Minn. They are dealers in stone, lime, hair, cement, brick, tile, stucco, building paper, brown hydraulic lime and Jasper hard wall plaster. If you get your cistern plastered with their Austin cement it will not leak. If you are thinking of building give them a call. They are among the principal operators of stone quarries, lime kilns and stone saw mills. (Laws and Legal Forms, An Abridged Compilation of the Laws of Minnesota, for the Convenience of the People, Containing a Review of the Enterprising Business Firms of Mankato, Minn., W. A. Funk, Free Press Printing Co., Mankato, 1898, Page 31)
Fowler & Pay, N Broad ne C St P M & O Ry, Mankato. (Mankato City and Blue Earth County Directory, R. L. Polk & Co, St. Paul, Minnesota, 1900, Page 534)
Mankato. Brick Manufacturing. – Fowler & Pay. First Inspection 1899. Adults – Male - 20. Total No. Employed - 20. No. Hours Labor Each Day - 10. Average No. Weeks Employed in Year - 22. (Seventh Biennial Report of the Bureau of Labor of the State of Minnesota, 1899-1900, Pioneer Press Company, St. Paul, Minnesota, 1900, Page 96)
In 1890, Fowler & Pay opened a yard in LeHillier, west of the Blue Earth River… (Mankato, Its First Fifty Years, Prepared for the Fiftieth Anniversary of the Settlement of Mankato, 1852-1902, Free Press Printing Company, Mankato, MN, 1903, Page 101)
Page 72. Recent alluvium is found at many points along the Minnesota River and some of its tributaries, such as the Le Sueur. Two and a half miles west of Mankato, a brick yard is in operation on alluvium of the Minnesota River, of which from 6 to 12 feet is workable and extends along the river in a flood plain of very great extent. It is typical of the material between Chaska and New Ulm and even beyond. It is rather sandy, and some care has to be used to exclude even the coarse gravel which occurs in irregular layers.
Page 73. The plant is making an excellent quality of common red brick by a soft-mud process at the rate of about 4 million per season. (Clays and Shales of Minnesota, Frank F. Grout and E. K. Soper, The University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, 1914)
The Fowler & Pay Brick Company of Mankato, Minn., recently constructed a new round down-draft kiln with a capacity of 165,000 brick. It is planned to build another one this fall. (Brick and Clay Record, Kenfield-Leach Company, Chicago, June 6, 1916, Volume XLVIII, Number 11, Page 1060)