Little Falls. Brick Yards – C. A. Sprandel. First Inspection 1899. Adults – Male - 10. Total No. Employed - 10. No. Hours Labor Each Day - 10. Average No. Weeks Employed in Year - 52. (Seventh Biennial Report of the Bureau of Labor of the State of Minnesota, 1899-1900, Pioneer Press Company, St. Paul, Minnesota, 1900, Page 135)
Page 356. Little Falls (Pine Creek). Brick and Tile – 1903. C. A. Sprandel. Total Number Wage Earners - 35. Adult Males - 35. Number of Hours Each Day - 10. Number of Hours Each Week - 60. Average Number Weeks Operated During 1902 - 36. Number Employed between 6 p.m. and 7 a.m. – 5. Number Persons Regularly Employed Sunday – 8. Established in Year – 1882.
Page 357. 1904. Total Number Wage Earners - 30. Adult Males (Office Force) – 1. Adult Males (Excluding Office Force) - 29. Number of Hours Each Day – 10. Number of Hours Each Week – 60. Average Number Weeks Operated Last Year - 12. Number Employed between 6 p.m. and 7 a.m. - 5. Number Persons Regularly Employed on Sunday - 5. Changes in Name of Firm or New Inspections – None. (Ninth Biennial Report of the Bureau of Labor of the State of Minnesota, 1903-1904, Volume 2, Great Western Printing Company, 1904)
Two or three miles west of Little Falls, Pike Creek has eroded a channel through a deposit of laminated clay which is being utilized at two yards for cream-colored brick. The upper 6 feet of clay has a yellow color, and there is an unknown depth of gray clay below it. It has been used for nearly 30 years, mostly for soft-mud cream-colored brick, though stiff-mud machinery has been made use of in recent years. Each plant has a capacity of about 40,000 brick per day. (Clays and Shales of Minnesota, Frank F. Grout and E. K. Soper, The University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, 1914, Page 131)