La Junta tribune., 1901-06-12
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her marvels are gaining fame
among men. The recent visit OF
the editors to this city is bearing
fruit, and resulted in columns OF
advertising for this community
without money and without price.
For two weeks past the editors OF
the Valley have been telling about
our beautiful and cultured women,
enterprising and wide-awake citi-
zens, good business houses, fine
dwellings, luxuriant gardens. etc.
and they have not vet recovered
from the royal reception given
them IN this city. The leading
editorial in Sundays Chieftain de-
votes half a column in exploiting
our many fine points, and We re-
produce It for the purpose OF de.
monstrating the fact that it pays
to cultivate the editorial fraternity
and treat them we'll whenever the
opportunity presents itself. La
Junts, il she possessed collectively
the faculties that are possessed by
the average human being. would
fell very much "pufied up" over
the many good things that are be
ing said OF her, and her bump OF
approbativeness would soon be
gratified to the full extent OF desire.
The article in the Chieftain was
headed "a Live Community" and
Is as follows:
Some people think that La Jun
IA is a good town merely because
It is a railroad junction point.
Those who have become acquaint-
ed with the people down there
have different opinion. La Jun
ia is a good town because its citi-
zens are making it so. They are a
driving, scheming, talented, per
sistent, persevering lot. They are
positively metropolitan in their
ideas OF progress, and daring in
execution. The idea OF building
up big live town away out on
the prairie, with no smelters or
iron works or oil wells or coal
mines, would not seem to be an
encouraging one. yet that is what
they have undertaken to do, and
it may be predicted that they will
come very near doing it. They
have secured for the town electric
lights, telephones. big -four mill,
first-class pressed brick works,
palatial and very large school
building, railroad shops, plenty Of
good water, numerous orchards, a
large railroad hospital, many fine
dwellings. good business houses,
and the entire town is set with
trees. Luxuriant gardens and
melon fields stretch out in all di-
Iections, and just north of the
river is an irrigating canal as big
as . young river, besides all the
other ditcaes. The soil and eli
mate are hardly second to those
Of Canon City for fruit. and thous-
ands Of young trees are about to
begin business in the apple and
plum industry. No place in the
world can be named that can grow
celery more successfully. and it is
being made a speciality. Il is also
a typical climate for handsome
and cultured women, as Welt -
for busy bees. f,''. ~ ~" II
La Junta has . volunteer hre de-
,partmens that would give points
ito many paid department. hav-
ing the drop harness and other
appliances for . 6se seconds hitch
and = Ave minutes combat with
ANY fire hend that has yet veatussd
ITO invade the place.
La Junta's churches ere plaeea
=
where good work Is done 90 spread
ing the gospel light. In reiigisa
~ 10 other matters the community
goes in for being u earnest. 81
Ona of the features Of interest
u ~ vvsodspa library, building
q god - crowded With books.
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