﻿CHRONOLOGY, 
  1879: 
  MONTANA. 
  13 
  

  

  appear 
  as 
  fine 
  coal-dust, 
  in 
  patches 
  of 
  some 
  six 
  feet 
  square 
  They 
  grew, 
  and 
  tor 
  four 
  

   months 
  continued 
  to 
  hatch 
  out 
  fresh 
  ones; 
  it 
  was 
  late 
  in 
  the 
  season 
  before 
  they 
  Left, 
  

   and 
  at 
  this 
  date 
  there 
  is 
  no 
  appearance 
  of 
  any 
  for 
  the 
  next 
  season. 
  Not 
  a 
  green 
  thing 
  

   grew 
  at 
  this 
  place 
  ; 
  the 
  wheat 
  was 
  up 
  six 
  inches 
  high, 
  but 
  now 
  all 
  gone, 
  as 
  Also 
  i 
  

   all 
  trees 
  and 
  even 
  Bage-bmsh 
  stripped. 
  I 
  have 
  known 
  the 
  hoppers 
  since 
  thej 
  

   came 
  to 
  Utah, 
  but 
  the 
  continued 
  hatching 
  out 
  for 
  so 
  long 
  a 
  time 
  I 
  never 
  saw 
  before. 
  

   At 
  the 
  one 
  and 
  same 
  time 
  could 
  be 
  Been 
  ou 
  the 
  ground 
  hoppers 
  ready 
  to 
  fly, 
  othere 
  

   just 
  winged, 
  and 
  again 
  others 
  so 
  small 
  you 
  could 
  just 
  see 
  a 
  place 
  covered 
  as 
  with 
  coal 
  

   dust. 
  I 
  know 
  of 
  no 
  place 
  in 
  Utah 
  that 
  has 
  suffered 
  so 
  much 
  as 
  this 
  tkK 
  season. 
  

   tlements 
  only 
  two 
  miles 
  off 
  raised 
  some 
  three 
  parts 
  of 
  crop 
  ; 
  others 
  just 
  across 
  the 
  

   Weber 
  River, 
  half 
  crop. 
  Fish 
  died 
  in 
  the 
  creek 
  as 
  it 
  dried 
  up, 
  and 
  this 
  creek 
  was 
  

   known 
  as 
  Loss 
  Creek, 
  from 
  the 
  Indians 
  years 
  ago 
  ; 
  but 
  never 
  since 
  the 
  settlement, 
  now 
  

   some 
  seventeen 
  years, 
  has 
  it 
  answered 
  to 
  its 
  name. 
  

  

  Mr. 
  John 
  Toone, 
  of 
  Croydon, 
  also 
  writes 
  : 
  

  

  I 
  have 
  felt 
  so 
  disheartened 
  at 
  the 
  loss 
  of 
  everything, 
  not 
  having 
  raised 
  the 
  first 
  

   green 
  thing 
  on 
  which 
  we 
  can 
  subsist 
  either 
  man 
  or 
  beast, 
  that 
  it 
  has 
  taxed 
  all 
  our 
  

   physical 
  energies 
  endeavoring 
  to 
  find 
  ourselves 
  something 
  to 
  live 
  upon. 
  

  

  In 
  June, 
  locusts 
  were 
  observed 
  at 
  Coalville, 
  flying 
  south 
  and 
  south- 
  

   east, 
  very 
  high 
  in 
  the 
  air. 
  

  

  At 
  Lake 
  Point 
  some 
  damage 
  was 
  done 
  to 
  grain 
  in 
  the 
  spring, 
  and 
  a 
  

   few 
  small 
  male 
  spretus 
  were 
  observed 
  there 
  by 
  us 
  August 
  7. 
  

  

  August 
  5, 
  a 
  few 
  locusts 
  were 
  seen 
  flying 
  in 
  the 
  air 
  just 
  east 
  of 
  Peter- 
  

   son, 
  on 
  the 
  Union 
  Pacific 
  Railroad, 
  but 
  there 
  was 
  no 
  migration 
  south- 
  

   ward 
  from 
  Montana 
  such 
  as 
  took 
  place 
  last 
  year 
  in 
  August 
  ; 
  so 
  that 
  

   Northern 
  Utah 
  will 
  in 
  1880 
  be, 
  in 
  all 
  probability, 
  comparatively 
  free 
  from 
  

   young 
  locusts, 
  and 
  probably 
  from 
  incoming 
  swarms. 
  

  

  THE 
  LOCUST 
  IN 
  MONTANA 
  IN 
  1879. 
  

  

  The 
  first 
  grasshopper 
  of 
  the 
  season 
  was 
  placed 
  on 
  our 
  desk 
  this 
  week 
  by 
  Mr. 
  F. 
  F. 
  

   Fridley, 
  of 
  the 
  Upper 
  Yeliowstoue. 
  The 
  specimen 
  before 
  us 
  was 
  several 
  weeks 
  old 
  and 
  

   seemed 
  to 
  belong 
  to 
  the 
  hungry 
  species. 
  Mr. 
  Fridley 
  says 
  large 
  numbers 
  have 
  hatched 
  

   out 
  in 
  the 
  vicinity 
  of 
  his 
  place. 
  — 
  [Bozeman 
  Courier, 
  April 
  10, 
  1879. 
  

  

  There 
  are 
  no 
  grasshoppjer 
  deposits 
  this 
  year 
  to 
  send 
  forth 
  a 
  horde 
  of 
  destroyers 
  upon 
  

   the 
  young 
  crop. 
  The 
  only 
  thing 
  to 
  be 
  feared 
  from 
  this 
  pest 
  are 
  the 
  immigrants, 
  and 
  

   the 
  earlier 
  grain 
  is 
  put 
  in 
  the 
  better 
  chance 
  it 
  will 
  have 
  to 
  escape. 
  — 
  [Boeky 
  Mounlam 
  

   Husbandman, 
  March 
  13 
  3 
  1879. 
  

  

  This 
  year 
  the 
  settled 
  portions 
  of 
  Montana 
  were 
  entirely 
  free 
  from 
  the 
  

   locusts, 
  either 
  unfledged 
  or 
  summer 
  immigrants, 
  as 
  will 
  be 
  seen 
  by 
  the 
  

   following 
  correspondence. 
  Large 
  numbers 
  of 
  locusts 
  were 
  reported 
  by 
  

   the 
  Rocky 
  Mountain 
  Husbandman 
  to 
  have 
  hatched 
  out 
  in 
  the 
  Upper 
  Yel- 
  

   lowstone 
  Eiver, 
  but 
  they 
  were 
  never 
  heard 
  from 
  afterward. 
  

  

  Mr. 
  O. 
  C. 
  Mortoon 
  writes 
  from 
  Fort 
  Benton 
  that 
  one 
  very 
  small 
  scat- 
  

   tering 
  swarm 
  of 
  locusts 
  arrived 
  there 
  July 
  21 
  from 
  the 
  southeast, 
  the 
  

   wind 
  blowing 
  gently 
  from 
  that 
  quarter 
  : 
  

  

  No 
  eggs 
  were 
  deposited 
  about 
  Fort 
  Benton 
  this 
  year, 
  no 
  swarms 
  afterward 
  appear- 
  

   ing. 
  There 
  is 
  no 
  prospect 
  now 
  of 
  this 
  section 
  suffering 
  from 
  the 
  locust 
  in 
  18b0, 
  unless 
  

   by 
  incoming 
  swarms 
  in 
  July 
  or 
  August. 
  

  

  Mr. 
  Chauncey 
  Barbour, 
  editor 
  of 
  the 
  Weekly 
  Missoulian, 
  reports 
  that 
  

   there 
  were 
  no 
  locusts 
  in 
  the 
  Missoula 
  Valley 
  in 
  1877, 
  or 
  1878, 
  or 
  1879 
  : 
  

  

  " 
  I 
  confidently 
  predict 
  that 
  grasshoppers 
  in 
  destructive 
  numbers 
  will- 
  

   not 
  visit 
  Western 
  Montana 
  before 
  1885." 
  

  

  