Brickmaking in Little Falls.  Martin Scott has gained a wide and enviable reputation as a maker of brick, and it is spreading year by year.  The location of Little Falls has peculiar advantages for the making and shipping of brick, and the industry is growing in proportions constantly.  Mr. Scott is a native of Penobscot, Maine, and at Bangor he commenced making brick as early as 1865.  Four years later he came to Minnesota, and in 1880 to Little Falls.  The valuable clay deposits of the neighborhood attracted his attention, and the following year he began the manufacture of brick, this being the first use made of it, for the purpose.  Jointly with other Little Falls brick manufacturing firms, Mr. Scott furnished the material for the Northern Pacific Railroad shops near LakeComo, St. Paul.  The brick used in the construction of the Hotel Euclid, West Superior, came from his yards, as did also that in the club building in Duluth.  The brick supply for one of the great elevators in West Duluth is the product of Mr. Scott’s machines.  In St. Paul and Minneapolis are several large buildings constructed principally of brick of Mr. Scott’s make, among which might be mentioned Stees Bros.’ buildings in St. Paul.  In Little Falls he supplied the brick for the Riverside mill, the court house, the city hall and the power house and gate house of the Little Falls Water Power Company.  Mr. Scott’s plant contains the latest improved wire-cut brick machinery, with which he can turn out 3,000,000 a year, filling orders promptly and satisfactorily.  By the fairest, most honorable methods Mr. Scott has accumulated a comfortable competence, chiefly in property in or near Little Falls.  (Northwest Magazine, November 1892, Page 30)