F. C. PUTNAM 
W T. PUTNAM 
W. T. PUTNAM. JR. 
MAIL ORDERS TAKEN 
FOR 
DRESSED CHICKENS. DUCKS 
GEESE. FRESH EGGS 
AND OTHER FARM PRODUCTS 
INTERMOUNT FARM SAUSAGE 
young men and w®men at Pullman, it is a small place, about. 2000 
people besides the College which has about $4oo mere, and it has 
net the distractions of a larger city, and the boys and girls seem 
for the meat part te go with the idea that they are there t© work 
and get all they can out ef it. A great many are the children ©f 
small farmers all over the state, men who have g@ne inti the tall 
timber, bur It a leg house and cleared up a farm, .lust the kind ef 
work I have dene, and the younger generation has n« scruples about 
waiting on the tables, washing dishes in the commons or doing any 
add jobs they can pick up round the town. in the summer they work 
in the wheat fields, ®n surveying crews, anything they Can get and 
get back in the fall ready to toe the scratch again. It is men who 
have been through this kind ©f a mill 7 ]^.wh© have made the West 
what it is, and whe -ill be heard fret in the next few years. 
The war has hit this country very hard, if it were not for 
®ur wheat, we would be in hard shape indeed. Business is at a stand¬ 
still, the loggers are all shut down arid the ©rchardists are making 
frantic efforts t© sell the product which ordinarily goes t© Europe 
in New York and the East. One ship took 25000 boxes of apples 
through the Canal a few days ag© from Seattle. That is only a drop 
in the bucket. But prices g© up. The condition is anomalous. I 
paid #56.00 for a ton ef flour a shefct time ago and such flour is 
now selling at about # 7.00 per bbl. We feel the less of the lumber 
industry especially, and it has thrown thousands ef men eut of 
work and the cities are full of the unemployed. Many of these are 
the scum of the earth., the I. W. Ws, and they have been going 
round the cities ordering meals at the restaurants and refusing, t© 
Ifntermount jfarm 
"THE MAIL ORDER FARM" 
LAKE CUSHMAN. WASH. 
