Show grasshopper PLAGUE As if iatha the drouth districts of debraska Ke braska kansas and eastern colorado were not yet sufficiently doleful pictures picture of desolation and want a now new affliction has baa appeared in those local wes in the form of a grasshopper plague it is stated that in one district in the first named state the in sect have shave appeared in huoh numbers as 0 to cause trouble to railway trains train and ld to require that locomotives should be provided with steel brushes to t clean the he rails in kansas and colo rado also the grasshoppers have invaded grain fields doing much damage to those u unacquainted acquainted a with grass gram hopper visitations it way may seem incredible that they can come in such vast quantities as to 10 interfere with railway traffic but those who have had haa experience with the pest peat realize full well that such an event is not an uncommon proceeding loes ding in grasshopper years yeam PS utah people who have resided here quarter of a century will readily recall the time when service between this oily city rod and ogden was war often interfered with by grasshoppers on the track through the davis bavis county fields they will also remember when the insects came in myriads myri ads eds obscuring the sun BUD at noonday as with clouds and when whole fields of grain and other vegetation were swept away in few hours later when the winged pests were driven by the wind in vast quantities into the lakes the waves piled along the shore masses of dead locusts in an embankment or wall sometime 3 tu to the depth of several feet the appearance of the grasshopper plague is of such uti uncertain certain character that from the experience of one year there can be formed no definite idea of what will follow follo the next season sometimes there will be a visitation of moderately large dimensions such as now is reported in the dispatches doing damage only over a limited area and then for fora a number of years there will be no sign of the pest peat at other times the coming as on this occasion to is the precursor of a more general visitation the succeeding year when the planting season is followed by wholesale destruction of crops that never come to a harvest the immunity which this region has enjoyed from grasshoppers for the pst asat twenty years has brought a feeling of security from that source of danger and it is not probable that either this season beason or next it if at all there will be a repetition of the experience of grass erase hopper years yearn 1 I certainly there theia is no indication of danger this season and only a bare possibility for the next at the same time it hardly would be wisdom to ignore possibilities in view of a warning given by the proximity of the post pest this year as to what way may ensue in 1896 utah way may not receive a visit next year she may not even have a scarcity of water lor for irrigation purposes such as some people are now inclined to regard as probable but there is reason able certainty that between drouth and grasshoppers the wheat regions of theP Jalan lalan cany not bring fortl a full measure of grain and that it if utah farmers are able to retail bretal i their bou blounte ante oua until the cheap wheat sea son on after harvest passes away they will bea bleto secure fairly remunerative prices through the better market which necessarily nece Marily attends attend fl the diminished supply cupply A laree at ok ck of borei wheat in the spring of 1898 would be good thing for utopians Uton ians lans to be in pop poo session of there will be sufficient need to make it a good investment |