F. C. PUTNAM 
W T. PUTNAM 
W. T. PUTNAM. Jr. 
MAIL ORDERS TAKEN 
FOR 
3ntarmount J^arm 
DRESSED CHICKENS. DUCKS 
GEESE. FRESH EGGS 
AND OTHER FARM PRODUCTS 
“THE MAIL ORDER FARM" 
LAKE CUSHMAN, WASH. 
INTERMOUNT FARM SAUSAGE 
l)uo. 26, 1914 
Dear Mr. Deane:- 
I have been meaning to write you for some time, but 
this has been a very hard fall, full of work and disappointments. 
It has been the rainiest fall I have ever seen and it was only 
with the greatest difficulty that I was able to get- the bull; @f 
my crops under cover. As it is I still have a let of roots out m 
the field &nd I am letting the hogs do the harvesting. 
Yesterday's mail brcugt us word in the daily paper that 
Seattle had finally abandoned take Cushman as a power site. The 
Mayor, who has been trying te> cut expenses directed the Council t© 
apply for permits for power sites in the Cascades near Seattle and 
Capable ©f developing 100 «/© more power than the Lake site. He 
intimated that the Lake Cushman scheme 7 $?, 7 had for its object 
the spending ©f the people's money on an impracticable scheme for 
the benefit of a corrupt gang, and gave the Municipal Ownership 
seme good hard raps. Of course it is possible that this matter may 
come up again, but we are so- far from a market^that it is doubtful 
if it happens in eur time. It is a great relief. 
We had a very busy season in the hotel during the first 
half of the summer# but the war opened in August and there was no 
ram from June till September and the smoke was so thick that we 
could net see across the Lake for days at a time, and as August is 
cur busy menth it was a heavy less to us. 
The beys came heme from. Pullman eh the 19th. They have 
grown a great deal and the second is now six feat lacking nal-f an 
inch.They are do-life very well in their work there and enjoy it 
