Pg. 96 railroad along the Weber River. Mr. Hyrum Geary says he rode on the first engine that passed through Morgan County on the Union Pacific. The following letter was received from Mr. George O. Brophy, Chairman of Public Relations Committee for the U.P.R.R. Omaha, June 25 – 1931. The original main track of U.P.R.R. was constructed through Morgan County in 1869 and the second main track was constructed in 1926. The length of our double track line through the county is 21.35 miles, and in addition to our main track we have 13.86 miles of side track in the county. In 1926 we constructed a new passenger station at Morgan; together with brick platform, landscaping, curbs, gutters, etc; paid assessments for paving Commercial Street; constructed two steel and concrete bridges to provide under crossing for traffic on Bridge Street and the highway about a half mile east of town. The cost of these improvements to the Railroad Company was $70,581. We have assisted the county and state to obtain a desirable and economic location for their highway and have enabled them to secure Federal Aid for the construction of these by granting 50 – year lease along approximately 6 ¾ miles of our right of way through this county. The county occupies with its highways these leased portions of the Railroad Company’s right of way practically without cost, thus affecting a very considerable saving to the county in the cost (finished on page 147) Pg. 97 Grasshopper War. The pioneers were troubled with grasshoppers for a number years. In the year 1867 they came, but they were so late that they did not do much damage, as the crops were pretty well farmed. However, the farmers realized a one third loss by them. But they came as a forerunner of what was to come. They came to lay their eggs; that where there was one this year, there would be a hundred the next. During the winter of 1867 and 68 the people were getting along fairly well. Everyone seemed to have the necessities of life. Spring came, and from all appearances a prosperous year was before them. Farmers planted their crops as usual and the crops came up looking very promising. But this seeming prosperity was of short duration, for, without any warning, the grasshoppers came like a black cloud darkening the sun. They swept down onto the beautiful green vegetation, and in less than 24 hours there was not a vestige of green remaining. Mrs. Dorothy Norwood Marker writes the following in regard to her experience with grasshoppers: I well remember, when only a child, of fighting grasshoppers. We had four or five acres of wheat