The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1911-11-10
JUN1Us BARNES g SON,
Proprietors Mysterious Pain Ease
BURLINGTON. VT.
COWBOYS FINERY EXPENSIVE.
Practically No Limit to What He May
Pay for an Outfit.

When the city man gets his bills for
his new fall suit, his fussy topcoat
with the latest style stock collar, his
velvet hat, spats and gloves he is apt
to think with some complacency that
he has done all that money can do
to clothe the outer man. His tailor is
the most expensive he can find, his ia.
bries are all imported, and he contem-
plates his fancy waistcoat with the awe
that comes with realization that the
buttons alone cost 81 each.
The same man would be considerably
surprised if anyone told him that there
was an establishment in the West Bot.
toms that deals exclusively with stock
men and cowboys where a hat costs any
where from $l2 to 500 and a pair of
trousers from sl5 up to almost any fig
ure. A cowboy with roll and prop
er sense of the fitness OF things can
safely match tailors bills with the most
fastidious city dresser.
Several skilled workmen will spend
weeks making saddle, hand carving it
with artistic designs and mounting it
with as much silver and other precious
metals as the purchaser desires to pay
for. And when stoekman or cowboy
wants saddle he wants it right. 1t
not frequently happens that his saddle
costs more than the horse under it, Reg
ular stock saddles, not made to order,
cost as high as SIS, and if the pur-
chaser wants TO 90 in for something
fancy they take the lid clear off.
Take spurs, for instance. A good,
everyday, knockabout pair of spurs can
be had for SIS, but of course it is
not contended that they are anything
more than a rough and ready article
for heavy roadwork. A silver spur, such
as would set off a stamped patent leath-
err boot, with monogram ON will come
higher Of course In making an esti-
mate on complete outfit, it would be
well to play safe and put spurs down
at $40.
"Chaps" is something every cowboy
must have. "Chaps" is the trade name
for those wide affairs that go ON like
a pair of overalls which are seen in
all faithful portrayals of life in the
wild horsy West. Sometimes they are
of leather with a long fringe, or if the
rider wants to look particularly devilish
they are Of goat skin with the hair UNI
barbered. "Chaps" cost anywhere from
SIS to $25.
But the two articles that the cow
boy who wants to shine really turns
himself loose ON are hats and saddles.
A hat can be made wondrous thing
when price is not a discouraging con-
sideration. OF hand stamped leather
with silver filigree and buckle it can
be made to weigh several pounds and
cost several dollars q pound. 1t seems
that no cowboy would consider himself
dressed up without at least five pounds
of hat. As to what cowboy thinks Of
saddle can be figured this way: When
he starts in to buy an outfit he buys
the saddle first and gets just what he
wants, and then if he has any money
left he buys the other things he needs.
There are fifty pounds of leather in a
real cowboy saddle, fifty pounds Of
leather wonderfully carved, stamped and
befringed. 1t is as big as a hammock
with a pommel like the ornamental
sternpost of ship and back like q
rocking chair. There are more rings,
straps, thongs and HOLSTERS depending
from it than a layman could count with
out trying to learn their various uses.
This saddle is five room fiat full of
furniture to the cowboy; he eats, works,
loafs and sleeps in it.-Kansas City
Star.