CENTRAL HUDSON GAS & ELECTRIC CORPORATION
                  POUGHKEEPSIE, N.Y.
 
                                                            
                                    July 12, 1935
 
The President,
The White House,
Washington, D.C.
 
Sir:      
          Re: Purchase of Electric Distribution Lines on            
                 Val-Kill Farm property, Violet Avenue,
                          Hyde Park, N.Y.      
                            
 
        The Val-Kill Furniture Shops, MissNancy Cook and Mr.
Arnold Berg, all situated on Val-Kill Lane in the Town of Hyde
Park,receive electric service from a line extension which we
built on your property for Mrs. Roosevelt in 1925 and which we
understand was further extended for you or Mrs. Roosevelt
by a contractor in 1933 to supply Mr. George Lawson.       
                       
        Mr. Moses Smithlocated on Violet Avenue, in the Town
of Hyde Park, receives electric service from an electric line
which we understand was built for you in 1927 by an electrical
contractor and was further extended in 1930 to supply the 
farmhouse and gas station of  Mrs. Nellie Johanesen.       
      
        We have recently made certain modifications in our
Rural Extension Plan to liberalize its application and to effect
material reductions in the guaranteed minimum charges 
under which rural lines   will be built in the future.    
At the same time we are reviewing cases of the
line extensions built and paid for by our customers 
on  private property but which now serve other customers. 
In the case of the line extensions above
mentioned, these lines are now used to supply   
electric service to several different individuals and
enterprises for use at six different places instead of to
 a single customer on each line as originally contemplated. 
Under the circumstances we feel: that we are now justified in 
taking over your original investment in these lines and in 
assuming-the responsibility for their maintenance and for 
the provision of additional capacity as required from time 
to time to meet  increases in the volume of the business.                              
                            
                                                 
          We, therefore, offer to purchase both lines
described above from you for $1,766.00; this total:price being 
made up of the sum of $1,172.00 which Mrs. Roosevelt paid us for 
the original line supplying the Val-Kill Shop on January 27, 
1926; $138.00 which we estimate to be the cost of the new
extension supplying Mr. Lawson; and $456.00 which we
estimate to be the cost of the line supplying Mrs. Moses
Smith and Mrs.Nellie Johanesen.