Show ESCALANTE MAKES WAR ON HOPPERS john black anil joseph 0 of f E visited tho the news of fie faco wednesday while here on oil court business anti anil stated that had been hard lilt during tile the past week when tho the reservoir of the now new Escala escalante tito irrigation campany broko broke last week causing tho the loss of tho the entire witter water war te r supply damage la Is estimated lit at lit in tile the losa logs of the reservoir voir tile tho cause of tho the break la Is unknown although it is that tile the loss losa wits was caused through R n flaw lit in tile construction of the lam dam on oil top of tills this calamity hordes of grasshoppers have been ing that territory lit in such auch numbers as to be almost a scourge at a i dance given I 1 ili Ks colanto last week geeki the people choso kildos tor for tile the purpose of exterminating tile tho pests and at 4 in ili the lie morning nd and in fit tile tho afternoon the participants tit in tilts this war wont went out each day and at the end of the war they had bad ed pounds of hoppers the loss of crops lit in this locality this year will amount to between one halt half arid and one third last year the he residents of that section suffered ered heavy losses by flood and hall |