Mr. William E. Poole of the Rush City Brick company was in the city yesterday. (The Saint Paul Daily Globe, Sunday Morning, May 9, 1886, Volume VIII, Number 129, Page 10)
Pulaski B. Broughton has brought suit against the Rush City Pressed Brick company to recover $960 alleged to be due for services rendered. (The Saint Paul Daily Globe, Thursday Morning, November 25, 1886, Volume VIII, Number 329, Page 3)
A Bad Smash Up. A Brick Company Fairly Loaded Down With Debt. The schedule of assets and liabilities of the Rush City Pressed Brick company was filed yesterday by Gorham P. Cross, the assignee. The assets amount to $9,939.66, and consist of the following property: Brick yard at Rush City, with machinery, sheds, boarding house and outfit, tools, and a quantity of brick, $3,809.80, book accounts $129.86, and 91 acres of land adjoining the brick yard, $6,000. The debts amount to $30,846.77, and the principal creditors are H. J. Brinkman & Co., Rush City, $177.77; G. W. Crane, Minneapolis, $207.87; W. S. Nott & Co., Minneapolis, $148.33; Shepherd, Winston & Co., St. Paul, $125; Star Oil Burning Co., Cleveland, O., $543; C. P. Haseltine, Minneapolis, $11,732.12; C. H. Fridley, Anoka, $3,930.45; J. A. Bowman, Minneapolis, $6.015.32; Thomas Brennan, Hinckley, $459.28; Harrison, Farrington & Co., Minneapolis, $214.84; Standard Oil company, Cleveland, O., $443.01; Russell, Boynton & Co., Minneapolis, $338.87; Cooley & Vater, Minneapolis, $145.78. (The Saint Paul Daily Globe, Tuesday Morning, August 14, 1888, Volume X, Number 227, Page 4)
Brick Works Sold. Rush City, Minn., April 25. – A new company from St. Louis has been formed and bought the plant here of the Rush City Pressed Brick company, and has taken possession. They are putting in new kilns, connecting the works with the main line of the St. Paul and Duluth with a switch and adding new presses and other machinery. (The Winona Daily Republican, Monday, April 25, 1892, Page 1)