Show COLORADOS HOME INDUSTRIES A Good Example for Our People to 4 Follow The manufacturers bureau received a call yesterday from Charles Kibler president of the Kibler Stone works of Denver He called to congratulate the bureau on the success of its efforts He was one of the organizers of the Colorado Manufacturers exchange and believes that institution has been one of the greatest factors in Colorados I growth While 12000 men were working work-ing in the factories when the blow to i silver came 11000 are still working and I manufacturing interests growing They at first districted the state and I sent men through the cities and counties coun-ties pleading with the people and secured se-cured 100000 pledges from citizens in I favor of home goods Special attention atten-tion was given to women as they do I I most of the buying The work done by the men securing pledges quickly I I doubled the sales of home made goods Careful calculation shows that 80 percent per-cent of the value of goods made at home stays at home to the benefit of all classes of the people while 85 percent per-cent of the value of goods brought In from the outside is lost to our people Mr Kibler endorses the methods of the local bureau and says its effects are being be-ing felt already merchants here telling him that they proposed to buy a near home a possible a they wanted to keep western money in the west He believes i is the right time to keep up the organization The feeling is general gen-eral in Colorado as he found i here and result a great industrial revolution will |