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La Junta Tribune
La Junta, Otero County, Bent County, Colorado
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Leslie Jones left Thursday night for Poncha City, Okla., to join his family for the holidays with Mrs. Gilbert's parents. As a train engineer between La Junta and Denver, he recalls firing for John Morrow in Oklahoma 20 years ago, noting the region's rapid growth from small towns to developed areas, surpassing even northwest cities like Seattle.
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In that time it has developed from practically nothing. Seattle, Spokane, Portland and other towns in the northwest may have a greater growth, but then all of those cities were municipalities of pretentious proportions even a quarter of a century ago.
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Poncha City, Okla.
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Leslie Jones left Thursday night for Poncha City, Okla., to join his family, who are spending the holidays there with Mrs. Gilbert's parents. Leslie now pulls the throttle on a passenger engine between La Junta and Denver, but twenty years ago he used to "fire" for John Morrow between Arkansas City and Purcell, Okla., and has not been down in that country since. In those days there was not a town from one end of his run to the other of much more pretensions than a water tank, and even Guthrie and Oklahoma City were mushroom towns that were hardly out of the jerkwater class. There is probably no section of the country that has witnessed a greater growth than Oklahoma during the past twenty years. In that time it has developed from practically nothing. Seattle, Spokane, Portland and other towns in the northwest may have a greater growth, but then all of those cities were municipalities of pretentious proportions even a quarter of a century ago.