Bricks are made near the southwest corner of section 11, Holmes City, by Ole Olson, producing only a few thousand yearly. They are cream-colored, tinted reddish. (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 497)