F. C. Putnam 
W. T. Putnam 
P. G. Putnam 
W. T. Putnam, jr. 
Mail. Orders Taken for 
Dressed Poultry, Fresh Eggs 
and Other Farm Products 
Xntermount partn 
W. T. PUTNAM & SONS 
“The Mail Order Farm” 
INTERMOUNT FARM BUTTER, 
CREAM, CHEESE, SAUSAGE 
AND FRESH PORK 
Hafee Cusifjman, TOJagftarGh 19, 1922. 
My dear Mr. Deane 
I have a note of Feb. 27 and tnere -/ms another 
which has disappeared- Glad you got the two cards- This is a very 
beautiful country round Vancouver and further south in the Willam¬ 
ette valley. The last is a l&ftfl' stretch of beautiful level land 
with gently sloping sides, mostly cleared, or rather i^o was for 
the most part open originally, and here and there groves of firs 
and oaks. The weather was not the best while we were there, for 
there were several inches of snow and a slight wind- I was not tak¬ 
en with the land from a farmer's standpoint, for it is very flat, 
at least in the middle, and there was much water in the fields which 
must take a long time to drain off and put back seeding in the 
spring. If a man has a farm in the center of the bottom and his 
neighbors will not cooperate with him in ditching he is up against 
a hard proposition, for he will have no place to put his water- 
It is likely to be very hot and dusty in the slimmer as well. We • 
went as far south as Independence, by an electric local, flourishing 
little towns all along the way, every three or four miles. To the 
west are the lower hills of the Coast Range and to the east the cas¬ 
cades- Altogether the prettiest stretch of country I have seen. 
After a couple of days in Oregon we crossed the Columbia 
to Vancouver and spent'three days in that neighborhood. This is an 
upland country, a few hundred feet above the river, I mean a short 
distance back, thickly settled and prunes everywhere. The Clarke Co. 
prune is said to be the best in the world. After a day and a half 
we went down on the Columbia Bottom. This seems to me the garden 
