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The summer after Henry left for England to fblfdl an L.D.S. Mission in that country the settlers were forced to contend with great challenges. Because of the hot, dry weather in 1855, hoards of grasshoppers hatched and migrated to the fields in Cedar Valley. The people fought the invaders to the point of exhaustion, but all to no avail. The hoppers went through the fields and gardens leaving the valley as bare as if it had been swept by fire. The following winter and spring of 1856 brought the darkest days that Iron County ever experienced--even the food supplies ran out. The grasshoppers returned in the summer of 1856, and devoured every green thing visible in many parts of U a .The terrible drought, one of the severest th ever known, completed the work of devastation. The settlers waited anxiously for winter to come. The winter of 1856 was one of the coldest and wettest ever known. Cattle ranges were buried under heavy snows and thousands of animals died of cold and starvation. During the early months of 1856 many of the inhabitants were driven to digging roots in order to survive until harvest time came. Andrew Neff wrote in The History o Utah that f there was not much run-off in the creeks the spring of 1857. He painted a very grave picture of Cedar City's situation as follows: Last winter [1856-871 the snow was still deeper [than the year before], and this spring there is still less water in the creeks. Add to this the last three seasons that the crops have been eaten up by grasshoppers and blue worms or filled with smut. The future promises nothing better, but with the continual influx of population they [the residents of southern Utah] must either constantly find new valleys to settle or starvation and removal will be inevitable. They have fiercely battled with obstacles thus far in their strife with nature. A few more seasons such as their last three will effectually starve them out. Most of the residents renewed their covenants in the Gospel by re-baptism in keeping with the general reformation which took place
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| Title | Henry Lunt: biography and history of the development of Southern Utah and settling of Colonia Pacheco, Mexico |
| Creator | Jones, Evelyn K. |
| Subject | Lunt, Henry, 1824-1902; Cedar City (Utah) -- Biography; Cedar City (Utah) -- History |
| Description | Biography of Henry Lunt, including the early settlement of Cedar City, Utah and establishment of the Iron Works. |
| Source | Henry Lunt |
| Date Digital | 2008-01 |
| Date Original | 1996 |
| Type | Image; Still image |
| Format | image/pdf |
| Digitization Specs | JPEG image for display. Archived TIFF image was scanned at 300 dpi with a CreoScitex EverSmart Jazz+ scanner. |
| Contributing Institution | Digitized by: Sherratt Library, Southern Utah University, Cedar City, Utah |
| Contributors | Researched by: Jones, York F., 1925- |
| Publisher | Published by the author: Jones, Evelyn K. |
| Language | eng |
| Genre | Biography |
| Website | http://www.li.suu.edu/library/digitization/lunt.html |
| Rights Management | Digital image c2008 Sherratt Library, Southern Utah University. All rights reserved. |
| CONTENTdm file name | 1072.cpd |
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