F\ C. PUTNAM 
W. T. PUTNAM 
W. T. PUTNAM, JR. 
MAIL ORDERS TAKEN FOR 
DRESSED CHICKENS, DUCKS, 
GEESE, FRESH EGGS AND 
Intermount pann 
W. T. PUTNAM a SONS 
INTERMOUNT FARM BUTTER, 
CREAM. CHEESE. SAUSAGE 
AND FRESH PORK 
••THE MAIL ORDER FARM” 
ILafer CuSfjman, Wadi). 
March 17, 1918. 
Mr. Walter Deane, 
29 Bre-ster St. 
Cambridge, Mass. 
Mv *1 car Mr. J)eane ■ — 
I happened in one of this reek’s 
papers on a photograph which I know will interest yuu. It is a very 
good riot ire indeed, ash shows one of the boys fast in the act 
of beginning to "back up” the log. Th sc trees and the cedars are 
v ry apt to be "swel 1—butted." and the men cannnot well 1 / stand on 
the ground to saw down, so they use a springboard, -hieh is stuck 
in the holes -hich you -ill see in the stupp to the right. In the 
old days Then r first cause here, stumps -ere seldom cat less than 
6 ft. high, and I have seen many 20 ft. high. Lumber is worth too 
much nowadays to let sc much stay in the stamp. Many of the old 
cedar stumps are hot being cat dr—n and sawed up into shingle bolts. 
This log, -hen cat up, -ill in all probability be split 
into "cants" .so that it rav be handled easily, cants being simply 
big rails, rails as big as a good sised tree trank. The haste nec— 
cess&ry to get the lumber out will not alio- the loggers to cat 
all the timber, and so the spruce is cut and -ha;re they cannot get 
roads v it to take oat the entire log, they split it into cants 
and take if out -ith teams/ to the railroads-I saw another photo 
some tine ago -hieh I meant to have kept for you. It was of a man 
catting the top off a "High line" pole. Tat High line is the last 
