The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-01-17
5RASSH0PPERS
AT A PREMIUM
Senator Larsen Wants State to
Pay Bounty For Pest.
WORTH DOLLAR A BUSHEL
WHITmoRE HAsBHf AGAINST
PAYMENT OF MILEAGE.

So as to encourage the hunting of
grasshoppers. the legislature may offer
bounty for their capture The re-
ward win not be posted for the soaps
and tails of the long-legged destroyers.
but will be Offered somewhat like a
market quotation on oats or wheat, so
much per bushel. Senator c. P. Lar
sen of Sanpete county is preparing a
bill which will place the jumping in
sects on the open list Of game, and the
measure viii fix the maximum bounty
which may be paid at 81 a bushel
Several counties in the state offered
bounty on -grasshoppers last summer,
to the great beneht of crops in their
locality Over 5000 bushels of hoppers
were turned in TO the county clerk of
Sanpete county. and the reward of 81
a bushel was paid by that functionary
and the carcasses were buried.
Various and devious are the ways of
hunting the solemn-eyed, muscular de-
VoureT of wheat It is not customary
to stalk and trail him as one would
deer, or 10 lay for him with a peal
her repeater as if he were a prairie
dog or rabbit. Neither is he peppered
on the wing with bird shot as is a part
ridge. Traps have been laid for him.
differing considerably in construction
from the snares set for wolf and mink.
and he has been lured within them by
bait, but not in Sufficient numbers to
make ii profitable. None of the ordi-
nary methods of hunting has awaited
TO make profit for the hunter out of
the grasshopper bounty. 1t took the
Utah farmer to invent a method. and
he rose TO the occasion. He raked in
the pest.
How They Rake Them In.
By means of a cloth fastened to the
! nay rake the hOppers were captured by
the hundreds of bushels. The Sanpete
farmer got two crops from his land, as
1t were, one of grasshoppers at 81 a
pusnel, and one of grain, not quite so
valuable. In fact, some land yielded
more to the acre of grasshoppers than
| it did of grain.
Sanpete county's crops We're big last
year, chiefly because of the grasshop-
per bounty said Senator Larsen. 1T
cost our county over $1,000, but far
more than that amount was saved by
the policy The state should help bear
the burden, and il is my purpose to
present bill legalizing the bounty and
providing that the state shall bear half
of it,
Two bills were introduced in the sen
Senate Bill No. 10, introduced by Sen
ator c. P. Larsen-An act to amend
section 2039 of <he revised statutes. 1t
strikes out a duplication which exists
In the state bounty law, whereby there
were two sections which authorized
the payment of bounty on mountain
/ lions, bear, lynx, gray wolves, wildcats
and coyotes. The Dill is in conformity
with recommendation made in Gov
ernor Wells message. Referred to ju-
/ dietary committee.
/ Applies to Pass Users.
| Senator Bill No. II. introduced by
Senator Whitmore of Juab county-An
/ act to prohibit the payment of mileage
/ to members of the legislature and state
| officials for distances Travelled when
such officials use passes or other trans
portation. Section ] That no official
/ Of the state of Utah shall be paid mile
! age for any distance actually and nee
essarfly Travelled in the performance of
/ his official duties for which he would
| be entitled to the payment of mileage
/ when such official has Travelled on a
/ Tree pass or other free transportation
/ over such distance. Referred to 1u-
dietary committee.
! Senator Whitmoro's bill created a
/ deal of amusement
You're sure you don't want it TO go
/ " tHS SOIlIIillte o. TalIr0dQSI de-
4 manded Chairman Lawrence of the in
/ dietary committee. to which it was re-
/ ferred.
The railroad committee is where it
I belongs, chuckled Senator Sherman.
/ chairman of that committee.
/ The senators laughed. and seemed
| Infinitely tickled when Senator Whit
! more declared his intention of accept
! ing no mileage from the state during
/ his term
| L am riding on pass" said he, and
| | would regard it as dishonest for me
! TO accept the states money for thar
| Which cost me nothing. 1 know of
/ many cases where state or county Off
| Gals make as much as their salaries
| out of mileage allowances for trips
upon which they use passes
! Chairman Lawrence Called a meeting
/ OF the judiciary committee for no
o'clock Monday to consider the two
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