﻿1878: 
  UTAH 
  AND 
  IDAHO. 
  5 
  

  

  that 
  some 
  were 
  seen 
  between 
  the 
  Oth 
  and 
  8th 
  of 
  August 
  in 
  the 
  air, 
  flying 
  

   in 
  a 
  southeasterly 
  course. 
  At 
  Rock 
  Creek 
  .Station 
  we 
  were 
  told 
  by 
  

   teamsters 
  that 
  there 
  were 
  no 
  locusts 
  seen 
  this 
  season 
  between 
  there 
  and 
  

   Fort 
  Kinney, 
  200 
  miles 
  north. 
  On 
  the 
  whole, 
  the 
  Locust 
  was 
  more 
  nu- 
  

   merous 
  in 
  Wyoming 
  this 
  year 
  than 
  in 
  1877. 
  On 
  the 
  day 
  of 
  the 
  eclipse, 
  

   July 
  20, 
  Mr. 
  William 
  Carlin, 
  at 
  Como, 
  saw 
  a 
  large 
  swarm 
  of 
  locusts 
  (0. 
  

   spretus) 
  passing 
  over 
  in 
  a 
  course 
  a 
  little 
  south 
  of 
  east 
  from 
  about 
  10 
  a. 
  

   m. 
  to 
  4 
  p. 
  m., 
  the 
  eclipse 
  here 
  not 
  being 
  total 
  ; 
  they 
  were 
  also 
  seen 
  there 
  

   three 
  or 
  four 
  days 
  after 
  this 
  date, 
  flying 
  in 
  a 
  northeasterly 
  course. 
  They 
  

   were 
  supposed 
  to 
  have 
  bred 
  in 
  the 
  Wind 
  River 
  and 
  Big 
  Horn 
  region.* 
  

  

  Locusts 
  were 
  also 
  observed 
  by 
  Mr. 
  W. 
  H. 
  Eeed 
  in 
  Freezeout 
  Mount- 
  

   ains, 
  35 
  miles 
  northwest 
  from 
  Medicine 
  Bow, 
  flying 
  to 
  the 
  east 
  in 
  con- 
  

   siderable 
  numbers, 
  August 
  12. 
  We 
  saw 
  a 
  few 
  on 
  the 
  ground 
  Septem- 
  

   ber 
  5. 
  Locusts 
  were 
  observed 
  at 
  Cheyenne, 
  August 
  30, 
  flying 
  southeast. 
  

   (United 
  States 
  Weather 
  Signal 
  Reports.) 
  

  

  From 
  a 
  letter 
  of 
  Mr. 
  F. 
  H. 
  Williston, 
  dated 
  Como, 
  Wyo., 
  we 
  take 
  the 
  

   following 
  : 
  

  

  July 
  29, 
  1878. 
  about 
  11 
  o'clock 
  a. 
  m., 
  I 
  first 
  saw 
  the 
  Rocky 
  Mountain 
  Locust 
  flying 
  

   over 
  Como 
  Station 
  on 
  a 
  southeasterly 
  course, 
  with 
  wind 
  about 
  the 
  rate 
  of 
  15 
  miles 
  per 
  

   hour, 
  the 
  temperature 
  80° 
  or 
  90° 
  ; 
  continued 
  to 
  fly 
  till 
  about 
  3 
  or 
  4 
  p. 
  m., 
  and 
  during 
  

   the 
  eclipse. 
  A 
  few 
  of 
  the 
  locusts 
  alighted, 
  but 
  none 
  of 
  any 
  consequence. 
  

  

  THE 
  LOCUST 
  IN 
  UTAH 
  AND 
  IDAHO 
  IX 
  1878. 
  

  

  After 
  passing 
  through 
  Wyoming 
  and 
  reaching 
  Evanston, 
  Wyo., 
  the 
  

   Rocky 
  Mountain 
  Locust 
  was 
  seen 
  flying 
  in 
  the 
  air 
  in 
  abundance 
  in 
  the 
  

   bottoms, 
  and 
  continued 
  to 
  be 
  seen 
  as 
  far 
  west 
  as 
  Echo. 
  They 
  were 
  also 
  

   observed 
  here 
  by 
  us 
  September 
  2, 
  on 
  our 
  return, 
  at 
  Evanston. 
  

  

  At 
  Coalville, 
  I 
  was 
  informed 
  by 
  Bishop 
  Clough 
  that 
  during 
  this 
  sea- 
  

   son 
  the 
  young 
  locusts 
  had 
  destroyed 
  nearly 
  one-half 
  of 
  the 
  wheat 
  crop 
  

   in 
  Summit 
  County, 
  and 
  that 
  when 
  fledged 
  they 
  flew 
  back 
  (contrary 
  to 
  

   the 
  general 
  rule, 
  as 
  they 
  usually 
  keep 
  on 
  in 
  a 
  southeast 
  course) 
  in 
  a 
  

   northerly 
  course 
  to 
  Morgan 
  County, 
  whence 
  they 
  came 
  the 
  previous 
  

   autumn 
  and 
  laid 
  their 
  eggs 
  : 
  others 
  flew 
  towards 
  the 
  southeast. 
  The 
  

   invaders 
  of 
  the 
  autumn 
  of 
  1877 
  laid 
  their 
  eggs 
  in 
  the 
  wheat 
  fields, 
  not 
  

   in 
  the 
  hill-side 
  as 
  usual, 
  so 
  that 
  the 
  young 
  when 
  hatched 
  in 
  the 
  suc- 
  

   ceeding 
  spring 
  could 
  not 
  be 
  kept 
  out 
  of 
  the 
  wheat. 
  At 
  the 
  Dairy, 
  three 
  

   miles 
  south 
  of 
  Wahsatch, 
  locusts 
  were 
  very 
  thick 
  August 
  24. 
  

  

  August 
  27 
  we 
  noticed 
  C. 
  spretus 
  frequently 
  about 
  the 
  railroad 
  station 
  

   at 
  Ogden, 
  though 
  they 
  had 
  not 
  been 
  specially 
  abundant 
  at 
  this 
  place 
  

   the 
  present 
  year. 
  At 
  Logan 
  they 
  were 
  abundant, 
  flying 
  20 
  feet 
  high, 
  

   and 
  at 
  Smithfleld 
  and 
  Richmond 
  a 
  few 
  were 
  to 
  be 
  seen. 
  

  

  At 
  Richmond 
  they 
  came 
  from 
  the 
  northeast 
  over 
  the 
  mountains 
  about 
  

   the 
  1st 
  of 
  August, 
  none 
  having 
  hatched 
  out 
  in 
  the 
  spring. 
  They 
  

  

  * 
  Mr. 
  Carlin 
  told 
  us 
  that 
  in 
  August. 
  1875, 
  he 
  saw 
  at 
  Creston 
  au 
  immense 
  swarm 
  of 
  locusts 
  flying 
  in 
  a 
  

   southeast 
  course 
  from 
  the 
  Dorthwest, 
  probably 
  from 
  the 
  Wind 
  River 
  Mountains. 
  They 
  were 
  so 
  abun- 
  

   dant 
  that 
  they 
  delayed 
  the 
  train, 
  so 
  that 
  they 
  had 
  to 
  sand 
  the 
  track, 
  the 
  men 
  shoveling 
  them 
  away. 
  In 
  

   July 
  and 
  August. 
  1S75, 
  they 
  were 
  observed 
  dying 
  southeast 
  at 
  Rawlings, 
  as 
  also 
  at 
  the 
  end 
  of 
  July, 
  

   1874, 
  flying 
  in 
  the 
  same 
  direction, 
  as 
  well 
  as 
  in 
  the 
  summer 
  of 
  1873.— 
  [W. 
  H. 
  Reed. 
  

  

  