The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1902-06-13
BELIEVES
IN MACHINES
CHARLEY eAlR TELLS OF NEW
sHEARlNG METHOD.
ACCEPTANCE WAS TOO LATE
"Tom" Bounton's Experience With
Deaf and Dumb Printer
Wants a South Paw.

From Wednesdays Daily Gazette. Il
4 G. M. Bair has become a convert to
machine shearing and thinks no meth
cd of %divesting the little wool pro-
ducers Of their winters coats so far
tried is quite the equal of that where
steam instead of muso-e supplies the
power necessary to operate the
shears.
Mr.. Bair was in town last night,
having come in from his camp at the
mouth of Hay creek. He said he had
just finished shearing his mutton
sheep, about 5000 in number, and
that it Lad been done at Snidow's
shearins plant on Pryor creek. Not
only is it done much quicker, but also
much more satisfactory, he said.
"a sheep shorn by a machine comes
out of the operators hands as slick
dIu ClCdu DIS a IdCC Ao &c 0Au AVIAN
are none of the mutilations SO COM
mon when the old way is employed.
The animal does not look as though it
had been run through a wire fence or
as If somebody had caught it and help
ed himself to enough of it's carcass to
make a meal.
1.-The cost is about the same, but the
work is much better and the salts
faction greater, while the saving IN
time and annoyance is also a consid-
! cradle item to be considered. Unfor-'
tunately the Snidow plant is not oper-
ated as a public institution, it having
been installed for the owners n
fit. I was fortunate enough to be
permitted to shear a part of my sheep
there and am now going back to shear
the rest by the old way, as Snidow
now has his own sheep ready for
shearing and I cannot wait until he
gets through.
Next season I expect to have my
own plant, as I am stuck on the new
way of shearing. But there are 9th
ers and I would not be surprised to
see many of the sheepmen of this part
of the state substitute machines for
hand shearing. There is nc waste and
, the fleece is much longer than when
the old method is employed, probably
a small item when a single animal Is
considered, but when they run into
the thousands it amounts to a good
deal" -
eyes, we are going to play ball next
SUNDAY, and from what they tell me
it's going to be a warm game. Those
Red Lodge players, I am told, are a
different combination than the ones
we met, last Sunday and If we win
we'll have to play for every ecore,'
SO said Captain Shuster this morning
in answer to The Gazette's query.
"But we are not frightened and If
our scalps go back to the coal camp
) the takers of them will know that
they have been up against something
am locking for a new pitcher, q south
! paw, and expect to have one here fol
the game. Red Lodge has a number
of left handed batters, I believe the
/ most Of the team WELD the stick In
that manner, and if l can get the mar
I'm after there will be some fun. A
: left. handed pitcher throwing to a lef
j handler '~sticker'has much the best o
it, if he is any good at all. The on
I'm expecting is that. kind and he'll
) keep the coal diggers guessing"
l Before he became a millionaire brok
e err and could wear real diamonds AM
t change shirts every day, "Tcm" Bou
t ton was a newspaper man, O as h
modestly speaks of his experience a
a moulder of public opinion and edu
t Gator of the masses, "the peopl
g thought he was one," which amount
t ed the same thing. At all events n
d was the owner of a print shop and n
planted it at Buffalo, down in Wyom
ing. That was before the advent Q
. the railroad and it was only occs
e sionally that a wandering plea rusf
err found his way into the town. a
stage coaches were hard to "beat.
But now and then of them woul
blow in and. Of course, "Tom" wa
l. about the first person the ambulator
It representative of the art would hone
It with a visit.
One evening Mr.. Bouton had wasl
a. ed the ink eff his hands and wa
busy figuring up the days bushes
when in stalked a seedy looking Il
dividual and by pantomime told tn
editor that he was deaf and dunn
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