Dodge County. Brick are made by Wm. Gutherless at Dodge Center. He makes 200,000 per year. They take 75 cords of wood at $2.75 per cord. The yellow or washed clay is employed. Mr. Gutherless puts in about one-third sand which keeps the brick from checking and warping. The bed of clay is worked for a thickness of 3 or 4 feet. (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 105)
Brick are made from the surface loam at Dodge Center, and three miles east of Dodge Center. (The Geological and Natural History Survey of Minnesota, Volume I, 1872-1882, N. H. Winchell and Warren Upham, Johnson, Smith & Harrison, Minneapolis, Minnesota, 1884, Page 375)