½ mile north-west of Evansville station, Douglas county, by Richard Partridge, about 40 M. yearly at $10; (The Geological and Natural History Survey of Minnesota, The Eighth Annual Report for the Year 1879, Submitted to the President of the University, Feb. 18, 1880, The Pioneer Press Company, St. Paul, MN, 1880, Page 120)
Richard Partridge and brother have made bricks since 1877 about a half mile northwest from Evansville, beside the railroad, which makes a cut 40 feet deep in the hill or swell on whose side the clay for this brick-making is dug. The railroad-cut is true till, yellow throughout, containing gravel and plentiful rock-fragments, including rarely pieces of lignite up to four inches in diameter; but in some portions next to the surface this deposit is nearly or quite free from gravel, and makes bricks of superior quality. The product in 1879 was about 40,000, sold at $10 per thousand. (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)