A New Town Called Cady Rises with 37 Lots—and a Saloon
Engineer Fleming platted Cady a quarter-mile from Blueslide, where a hotel, store and saloon are already rising—and more saloons are expected by spring.
Engineer Fleming has platted a new townsite for O. X. Cady. The new town is located about a quarter of a mile from Blueslide and contains 37 lots. The new town will be known as Cady and already boasts of a saloon, operated by Mr. Cady. U. S. Anderson has purchased a lot and is now erecting a building to be used as a hotel and general store. Blueslide will retain the postoffice and will probably have several saloons in operation within the next few months.
“The new town will be known as Cady and already boasts of a saloon, operated by Mr. Cady.”
Towns like Cady were speculative bets on the railroad and resource economy; many vanished when the boom moved on. Today the same patch of Pend Oreille County is a reminder that civic growth—and the saloons that followed it—was often improvised lot by lot.
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