An illustrated history of the Big Bend country, embracing Lincoln, Douglas, Adams, and Franklin counties, state of Washington . the con-struction, in 1901, of this flouring mill. It em-ploys a force of upwards of 17 men. CASCADE CITY. In reality there never was a town of Cas-cade City within the limits of Adams on paper there was quite a flourishing citybuilt up there. There never was a townsitein Eastern Washington the promoters of whichmet with greater success in the disposal of townlots than those who manipulated the market oflots in Cascade City. It consisted of an 80-acre tract
An illustrated history of the Big Bend country, embracing Lincoln, Douglas, Adams, and Franklin counties, state of Washington . the con-struction, in 1901, of this flouring mill. It em-ploys a force of upwards of 17 men. CASCADE CITY. In reality there never was a town of Cas-cade City within the limits of Adams on paper there was quite a flourishing citybuilt up there. There never was a townsitein Eastern Washington the promoters of whichmet with greater success in the disposal of townlots than those who manipulated the market oflots in Cascade City. It consisted of an 80-acre tract of land, laid out into exceedinglysmall lots. It was located about nine mileswest of Lind. It came into existence in theearly 90s. The town plat was never surveyednor was any plat recorded. An elaborate plat—on paper—\\as made, however. On it wasshown the Columbia river running through thetown, and pictures of steamboats at extensivewharves. The Northern Pacific, Great North-ern and Oregon Railroad & Navigation Com-panys lines all passed through the town. Pub-lic parks appeared on the plat. School houses i^iA^^^. ?c*S .*??-»? HEADING OUTFIT, ADAMS COUNTY HISTORY OF THE BIG BEND COUNTRY 7S9 and churches were chstributed with a lavishhberaHty and weahh of imagination hardlysurpassed by the autho;r of Gullivers describing the advantage of becom-ing a resident of Cascade City was printed andfreely distributed throughout all portions ofthe east. Taken as a whole it looked like afine place in which to live. Lots sold like hotcakes in nearly every state in the east. Thistract of land had been procured from the rail-road company, and it is probable that in theearly days bands of cattle and horses may havegrazed upon this townsite. Possibly a cow-boy may have driven over it. And that was asclose as it ever came to being anything re-sembling a town. Never a building was erectedon it. The Columbia river does not touchAdams county at any point. The GreatNorthern Ra
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