Show ESCALANTE MAKES WAR ON HOPPERS john black and joseph scho w ot of escalante escalant e vi visited a it e d th the a news N ew 78 ot of flee fice wednesday while here her e on an court business abid as d stated that escalante had been hard hit during the past week when the reservoir of the new Esc escalante alanto irrigation campany broke last week causing the loss ot of the entire water supply damage is estimated at in the loss loas of 0 the roser reser hiir the cause air the break Is 7 unknown Tin 1 In known ali 4 Z Y aa ad th a PU t tiu 1 Q hiyi Vi r reo Yi i a ough u 9 h a flay aw ig m the construction ot of the th da dam on top of this calam calamity it r hordes ot of grasshoppers have been infest ing that territory in such numbers as afi to be almost a scourge at a dance given in Ea Ex calante last week the people chose sides tor for the purpose of exterminating the posts peats and at 4 in the morning and in the afternoon the participants in this war went out each day and at the end of the war they had bad exterminated pounds of 0 hoppers the loss loas of crops in this locality tills this year will amount to between one halt half and one third last year the residents ot of that section suffered buttered heavy losses by flood and hall |