The Bessemer indicator., 1894-02-17
WHAT COLORADO WOMEN GAN
DO FOR HOME INDUSTRIES.
Addfssi by Mrs. N. ~. T.ass at . Pub
iiS Meeting Of Defvst Hodss wives
II hhs. Wonsn's, Esehsnge;
Dsnteri fnssdsy- kvsn-

Dousefl Ihesaey 4Nch
ing, FebruaryO.
/ wish it distinctly understood in
the outset, that the special object Of
the home industry movement is not
sin ply t5 befeHt our manufacturers,
but the whole community. Dirhetlf,
il will LeHetit not only the mauufac
turers, but the producers of raw ma
terials, and more particularly the wage
earners, Indirectly, it will benefit
every other individual in the commun-
ity, as by keeping vast SANS of ntones
in the State now unnecessarily sent
away, it will add so much to the money
In local circulation, Of which every
body gets share,
The women of Colorado, more paf-
ticularly the housewives, could easily
make difference Of from 81 900, 900
to 81. 900, 600 ut least In favor of tho
homt trade Of the State during 1894,
which sum instead Of soibs put Of the
State, never to return, would frrnisli
employment III Colorado to large ad
ditional numbers Of persons (including
many women and would go into the
pockets of our own citizens.
Let US briefly considet few in
etanaea H -...,
We have several local firms manu-
featuring baking powder. Yet East
crn baking powder is brought to Colo
RADIO by the carload, no better or
cheaper than our homo products. i
Backing of superior quality is also
made here. Colorado uses between
$40, 900 and $4,000 worth of backing
per annHbi, about three .fourshs of
which actually comes from Fralcq,
and nearly all the balance from New
York and Philadelphia.
The high quality of the tomatoes,
beans, peas, &c, canned by our Colo
RADIO factories, is fully admitted, and
tho local market il head of the local
supply. The more encouragement
given, however, the more will the man
ufacturers try to meet the demand; the
more vegetables they require from the
growers and the more the Colorado
acreage in vegetables will bee4tended.
During the past season our local can
ming factories contracted for 800 acres
of tomatoes alone, to say nothing of
other articles, from the truck growers
around Denver, Littleton, Arvada,
Golden, Lcngm0nt, ureeley and other
places. Think of the money paid to
the truck growers, to say nothing Of
the money paid to the hundreds of ex-
ira hands-almost entirely women and
eirls-employed in the fields during
the picking season and in the factories
during the packing season. of every
dollar spent in Colorado canned goods
95 cents stays hcre. OF every dollar
spent il, Imported canned goods ovqr
30 cents leaves Colorado forever. 1t
is the same with pickles, sauer kraut,
and table luxuries such as catsup,
horse radish, &c, while as to preserves
and fruit jellics, an increased local de-
mand will result in q great local devel.
opinent of small fruit culture.
Take dairy products. Colorado has
numerous creamerics and cheese fac
tories scattered throughout the State
from Larimer county to Conelos coun-
ty, which arc IS mucl, lone Industries
as the Denver cotton mill, yet we are
now sending from Colorado to other
states about 100000 per annum,
for butter, cheese, condensed milk
and evaporated cream. What differ
cnco it would make if that 81, ,0n0, 900
wa. going into tie pockets OF our but
ter and cheese makers and farmers
OF course, you cannot expect to get
good creamery butter at the same
price as bogus butter, of which latter
article unfortunately large quantities
continue to be palmcd off as genuine
butter on our long suffering public.
A more loyal patronage of our butter
and cheese makers will soon bring d
Condensed milk factory, and our far
mers, discouraged with wheat grow
ing, will turn increased attention to
dairying and hog raising, and big
farms now maintaining one family will
be subdividcd and maintain several
families, and so increase our popula
tion and the demand for other goods.
1t is the same with eggs, table poul-
try, fruit and honey, for which we are
sending vast SUMS out of the State i'm
stead of spending them with our own
tcoplt. The lnTe we encotragc onr
home poultry farmers, fruit growers,
and honey farmers, the more these
home industries will develop and fur
nish employment for more people, es-
pecially women.
Take coffee and spices. More than
one firm III Denver roasts coffee of SUI
perior quality, and being obtainable
fresh, the quality is maintained. Yet
many thousands of dollars are sent out
of the State every year for coffee made
up in tins and paper packages, there
fore Comparatively stale, and actually
dearer and inferior to the Denver
roasted coffee. We have also several
local firms of spice grinders furnishing
pure goods, yet of the annual Colorado
consumption of spices, viz, about
100000, at least one third goes tc
Eastern firms.
As to lard and cured meats, we have
Several local packing houses which
purchase all the hogs raised in Colo
RADIO, paying therefor large annual
sums to Colorado farmers. and are Civ
ing quite an impetus to hog raising in
this State. As yet, to meet their re-
qurcments, they purchase large guam
titles Of live hogs from Kansas and
Nebraska. Yet Colorado is sending
$3.50, 900 per annum to other states for
lard, bacon, ham, salt pork, sausage,
&c.
AS to shoes, We have as yet only
one factory in Colorado, which during
the recent hard times has steadily en-
rloyed over forty persons making la
dies shoes, and inofe recently child
rcn's shoes, getting its sole leather
from our local tannery. As matter
of fact, if that factory got just
one-quarter If the trade of
Denvot alone fin women's and chill