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A Holiday Motor Jaunt Across Alberta and Back
A correspondent recounts a long motor tour starting from Swift Current to Lethbridge Barons High River Okotoks Granum Red Deer and Edmonton. The journey visits friends farms and oil fields notes strong crops at Mundell farm 3500 bushels wheat 55 acres Banner oats and 100 acres barley and describes the Turner Valley oil field with 150 wells and nightly gas flares. The party travels 1250 miles with good weather and reports no car troubles ending with rest in Red Deer and plans to meet in Edmonton.
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Swift Current
Lethbridge
George Stacey
MacGregor
Cairne
Barons
J.A Gow
Jas. Muir
Gow
Marquis
W. B. Rogers
Granum
High River
Archie Clemens
Norman Holmes
Clemens
Okotoks
John Mundell
Mundell
A. Lewis
Turner Valley
Calgary
Wm. Machan
J. H. Smith
Tait
Olds
Wes. Street
R. E. Lye
Red Deer
Alberta
Turnbull
E. Glasson
J. R. Weston
Cairns
Edmonton
W. B. Cairns