A New Brick Yard. Rudolph Burkhardt & Sons are going to establish a large brick and tile plant at Plainview, Minn. They have purchased the old Clark farm adjoining the stock yards and will locate their plant there. A sample of the clay was secured by them some time ago and they have given it a most thorough test with the results of producing a most excellent brick. They claim that it is impossible to secure a better quality of clay for the manufacture of brick and are confident that they will be able to compete with any yards, for quality of price, in southern Minnesota. They have already commenced the preliminary work of clearing away for the new plant and expect to have the works in full running order about the first of June. Mr. Alfred Burkhardt will have entire supervision of the brick works as also the extensive lime trade in which the firm are also actively engaged. (Clay Record, Clay Record Publishing Company, Chicago, May 14, 1896, Volume VIII, Number 9, Page 18)
A similar deposit occurs near the station of Plainview (Wabasha County), and was used for a time. (Clays and Shales of Minnesota, Frank F. Grout and E. K. Soper, The University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, 1914, Page 164)