Nicolin & Smail are enlarging and improving their new brickyard, with the expectation of doing an extensive business next year. (The Saint Paul Daily Globe, Thursday Morning, November 26, 1885, Volume VII, Number 330, Page 5)
JORDAN, Minn., April 6. – The Minneapolis & St. Louis engineers have surveyed the line for the new side track to be laid to Smail & Nicolin’s brickyard. The grading is nearly finished, and the track will be laid in a few days. Smail & Nicolin have made a sale of nearly all their brick, and are awaiting the completion of the side track to ship. They intend to have a force during the coming summer sufficient to manufacture 60,000 bricks per day. (The Saint Paul Daily Globe, Wednesday Morning, April 7, 1886, Volume VIII, Number 97, Page 5)