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Show TWENTY-TWO TONS OF GRASSHOPPERS Sanpete Farmers Havo Made a Great Harvest of tho Pests, and. the War Is to the Death. "The end of the grasshopper war ln Sanpete Is now In sight," said former Slate Senator Alder of Mantl yesterday. "I doubt If tho people can have any conception of what wo havo been up against down our way. "Up to today Sanpete county officers had received and paid for twenty-two tons of grasshoppers, with one quarter to hear from. Wo will capture and destroy fully thirty tons 'before the work of extermination has ended. The county and State now pays a bounty of 1 cent a pound for grasshoppers. We have paid out ?410 to date. Last year the bounty was $1 a bushel. The people captured and the officers paid for 5000 bushels. "The pests have practically all been exterminated, except ln a strip one mile wide by four miles long, about throo miles west of Ephralm. War will be made on the grasshoppers until none remain. "The systematic and determined effort ef-fort of our people to rid the State of the pests deserves commendation everywhere. every-where. Not only Is Sanpete benefited, but the State at largo Is. If tho peats were permitted to propagate during a season undisturbed they would soon sweep the Slate. No one has an Idea what a nuisance grasshoppers aro who has not seen their destroying work. They are worse than a prairie fire, and when they get full headway aro harder to check." js |