Packard's journey to utah, etc. 
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August 30 and 31. — At Lake Point the Rocky Mountain locusts were frequently caught 
in recently harvested wheat fields. 
September 1. — For considerable valuable information regarding the distribution of 
the locust, obtained in Salt Lake City, we were indebted to the editor of the Salt 
Lake Herald, to the United States signal observer, and especially to Mr. Lawrence 
Bruner. He had, August 31, seen C. spretus at York, 70 miles south of Salt Lake City, 
and had this day returned from Provo, where he observed a few individuals. 
September 2. — We left Salt Lake City for the East. Upon the train, after leaving 
Ogden, a scout with the pseudonym of Navajo Bill informed us that locusts were 
seen the past summer between McDowell's Ferry and the Blue Mountains, in Eastern 
Oregon, flying and also upon the ground. At Evanston, just east of the town, Calop- 
tenus spretus was very abundant, both flying in the air and hopping about on the 
ground. 
September 4.— At Como we stopped for two days. Mr. William Carlin, the station agent, 
whose hospitality we enjoyed, informed us that July 29, the day of the eclipse, he saw 
4i large swarm of Caloptenus spretus passing to the east by south from about 10 a. m. 
to 4 p. m. He thinks they bred in the Wind River Valley. Mr. F. F. Hubbell told us 
that he saw a swarm three or four days after the eclipse going in an east by north 
course. 
September 5. — In the course of a walk of five or six miles south of the station I saw 
only three Caloptenus spretus, and they were on the ground. 
September 6. — We took the cars for Omaha. Mr. W. B. Scott, of the Princeton Col- 
lege expedition in search of fossils, whom we met on the train, gave us the following 
information regarding the distribution of the locust in the regions visited by him 
■during the past season. He stated that grasshoppers were seen locally in a few places 
in abundance on Bitter Creek, 100 miles south of the Union Pacific Railroad, but usu- 
ally there were not enough to serve as bait for fishing. They were also seen at the base 
and on the summit of Gilbert's Peak, at about 11,000 feet elevation. The last of 
August locusts were observed at Twin Creeks, on Ham's Fork, Wyoming. 
We were told by a person on the train that Caloptenus spretus, or the locust, was 
not seen at Boise City, Idaho, this summer, but that crickets (Anabrus simplex) had been 
abundant. 
We reached Salem September 10th. During our journey we gathered many other 
facts regarding the appearances, distribution, and ravages of the locust in former years 
in the Territories of Wyoming, Utah, Idaho, Montana, and the State of Colorado. 
Our thanks are due for passes and other favors to the officers of the Lake Shore and 
Michigan Central Railroad, the Northwestern, Rock Island, Burlington and Quincy, 
Union Pacific, and Utah Northern Railways. 
