HENRY T. HACKETT
         ATTORNEY & COUNSELLOR AT  LAW
               226 UNION STREET
            POUGHKEEPSIE,  NEW YORK
 
                                                            
                                          Dec. 31st, 1935.
 
Hon. Franklin D. Roosevelt
The White House
Washington, D.C.
 
Dear Franklin:
 
                                                        
                      Schaeffer wants $1000.for his wood lot
and the fee of the road out to Cream Street on the east and
he wants to reserve the right to use the road as far west as
his land extends from Cream Street and also to reserve the
wood on the wood lot.
 
                     He wants too much, more than twice what 
the land is worth.
 
                     I have been told that about half of his
woodlot has already been cut off.Schaeffer claims that he was
born in Connecticut and later moved into Dutchess County and
worked for a number of years for Morgan and Henry Wilber.
He is now running his farm and peddling ice around the City
of Poughkeepsie. I think he is making more out of  the ice 
business than out of the farm.The hog business on Jones' 
property is owned and operated by a white man named Nash
and Elmer Smith, a nephew of Uriah Smith, who you used to
know over on Quaker Lane. Smith told me that they have from
fifteen to twenty old hogs and one hundred and twenty-five
to one hundred and fifty pigs of different ages and sizes on
the property.This business depends upon obtaining garbage from
the City of Poughkeepsie and will come to an end as soon as
the City of Poughkeepsie builds an incenerator.
 
                     I had been thinking that you mightpurchase
 the thirty-two acre parcel of Jones on the west, but, as
the west line of the wood lot runs very closely to the house,
it would be impossible for Gus Gennerich's friends to stay in
the house if the pigs were moved into the wood lot. Jones has
said at different times that he thought that Elmer Smith
would buy his property, and I think it will be Just as well if
he does. We can probably do business with Smith better than we
can with Jones.
 
                     With kindest regards and best wishes      
 for  a very Happy New Year, I am
 
                                                            
                                     Sincerely yours, 
                                                            
                                   [Henry T. Hackett]