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Transcription
"As I look back from the plain near Radnor
the sun is all gone, buried in the atmosphere con-
densing against the mist. In the mist themselves there was
condensation in clearness of above the high parts
landing charm and mystery to the high peaks.
They melted into the glory of the heavens and God,
but that fog came there was revealed here as the
yellow spots in the rolling and slowly rising mists.
And now I am seeing the crusted grassed plains,
the evidence of aridity and poor looting lands. Along the
small stream courses are some small crops! Truly
here
about no one would dream of the majesty immediately
to the south hidden in the distant mist. Ah yes,
East of Calgary the country is as level as a
table. Light snow everywhere. The glare is hard to
stand.
Calgary is of about 42 years old, and now a
town of 75,000 people. The great building in the Pal-
ace Hotel of the C.P.R. — the upfield face this
county.
All the afternoon we see only the flat plains and
the grain fields with here and there bunches of