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 Harm 
W. T. PUTNAM & SONS 
"THE MAIL ORDER FARM” 
INTERMOUNT FARM BUTTER, 
CREAM. CHEESE. SAUSAGE 
AND FRESH PORK 
Hake Cushman, GHagij. 
One thing I air: sorrv to see. env of the people of the -orlcing 
classes, please understand how I use the phrase, I ho not believe 
in ’’Classes" are nos getting more money than they have ever handled 
before, and in many oases it seems to have gone to their heads. I 
get this from two widely separated souroes besides what I see for 
myself. An oil friend of nine, a neighbor of yours, a lady living 
lAiuv 
in Winchester, wrote me a few days ago that the fishermen were get- 
ing so much more than they had ever had that the women with whom 
she -as associated in her -"orh had all they could do to restrain 
them from squandering the 'unaccustomed plenty. This comes from 
your home. Here the same conditions obtain. One of my neighbors, 
a wealthy woman ,toli me last Sunday that the propriefcc r of perhaps 
the most expensive woman's shop in Seattle had told her that she 
had expected to have retired, but the shipbuilding work had let 
such a flood of money loose that she could not keep her shop stocked 
and the customers were not the women to whom she had formerly sold 
her goods but the wives of the workers, and it was all going for 
expensive underclothes, silk stockings etc. Common labor is paid 
#4.00 per lay, skilled can earn #8 to $10 or ever: more, and the 
quantity of work may be gu&ged by the fact that in one day one 
firm alone was given contracts for one hundred millions <6’or ships, 
and the aggregate of the contracts now placed in Seattle alone 
amounts to $250,000,000. The nutober of workers is such that the 
str- *-t cars could not handle them and the Government rltns steam 
trains through the streets to the works on which the men travel 
free, 'kie country is working hard and there is a great fever of 
