| Show FORT I 1 SALMON RIVER riven july to ilon non james W cummins cummin froin from his brother benjamin f cummings I 1 started for this place on an the lath or of june in company alth with ith prest thomas S smith and eight others with four wagons and teams we hud hid a pleasant and prosperous journey and arrived here on the I 1 ith lith dinst without accident or difficulty we found all ell here in good health and spirits they tiley had witnessed the almost entire destruction of their crops by grasshoppers whose unrelenting ravages had blasted all till anticipations of an abundant harvest the tiie prospects for which could not have been more flattering fla fering previous to the inroad of the devourer 11 when we arrived we found that tle the tie grasshoppers had mostly left without depositing their eggs and they continue to leave as fast as they get large enough to fly and another season we shall probably be able to reap a harvest of grain instead of grasshoppers tha season has been quite rainy and rather too frosty for some kinds of crops we had a fine fina warm rain on the the tile grass Is yet greeby and abundant we have a grist miflin mill in progress it will be ready to run in about two weeks the loss of our crop involves us in a some serious inconveniences as we are thereby ther e by again aga in com polled to haul our flour and seed grain so great a distance A company will start on monday the for su supplies ilas lias they arrived about the tile lust last another company will probably start about the tile first of november they will i w inter later in the settlements me ants and return in the tho spring |
