| Show the wheat crop from the reports that have been received from nearly every county and settlement in the territory within wilbin the last few days the prospects of an abunda abundant rit tit harvest this season are ore re not generally very flattering and in several locations the wheat crop will be almost an art entire failure comparatively speaking there wa wab wag s but little wheat bowed last fall and much of what was put in was either elther killed b by y the severity of the winter or injured by the cold blasting winds of april and may alay to that ex to apt rit tit that many fields especially in the northern counties are not worth harvesting and ansome Instances the owners are ri towing them there bein being more cheat than there is whet wheat growing and consequently the crop is not of any valce valre only as feed for stock most of the spring wheat was bowed sowed BO so late that it did not riot get a fair start till the extreme hot weather bet et in and much of it notwithstanding the abundance bun dance of water for arri irrigating 9 abing looks sickly and will not produce aa as reported by wheat growers over one half of an average crop and in iron beaver and cache counties it will be eo so late in maturing that if the frost does not hold off later than common in the faila faiia falla fall fail a large proportion of it will be injured before itie it is fully ripe county the grasshoppers and crickets are making sad havoc and a friend informs ui u a that many fields have been nearly destroyed by those unwelcome visitors and at santaquin San in utah county some fields have been entirely stripped of vegetation with a fair prospect that there will not be much of the grain left unless the gulls which are said to be plenty successfully carry on the war of extermination they have commenced against the hosts of those intrusive devourers devour devou ers rera which have bave visited that part of the territory Terri territory tor y this season and in years past have destroyed the crops throughout the entire settlements in these mountain valleys making in the short space of a day or two the beautiful fields of the husbandman look like a barren desolate waste at fort herriman and other localities in this and adjoining counties the crops have already been severely injured by the ravages of the grasshoppers and what they may do hereafter is its unknown tho thol some idea may day be formed of the extent to which their depredations will be carried by what they thes have bave done jone is to former years yearb in some tome settlements the wheat crop is said to be promising tho thol it will be late in ripening butin but in the ibe op opinion of the best farmers in the country there will not be over one half halt of an average crop raised this season in the territory unless the latter part of the season shall shail be more favorable than it has been up to this time tit tji tuk TUB Z STATE ROAD AGAIN the state road between the city andvig 7 cottonwood will be passable for teams of all kinds in a few days A contract was entered into by one of our thoroughgoing thorough b b t going citizens on the dinst to build a bridge over the new charnel of kanyon creek made by the late high water to be completed forthwith and he reports that by tuesday or wednesday next it will be finished it was expected at the time the job was let that it would be completed the present week reek but owing to the scarcity of lumber the contractor informs us that the planking cannot be obtained before monday or tuesday when it will be immediately laid the road can then be traveled without difficulty though it will not be good till the entire distance across the bottom is thoroughly graded which cannot be done ibis this season without involving the county in debt an an evil which those entrusted with the management of its financial affairs we will avoid if possible it is proposed to have about two hundred rods more of the road graded this season in addition to what has already been let which when completed complete dp will make it a ai good if not better than it was one year ago if that wa was the only load to be made this summer in thia this county more money might 0 be expended on it 1 but when the roads and bridges are so far repaired that they can be safely passed the court house completed and the expenses for the suppression and punishment of crime are under present circumstances will be no small sum there will not be mich money left in the county treasur treasury 7 for the officers to squander or appropriate where it is not cot absolutely necessary |
