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Show PACIFIC COAST NEWS. J COLOUADO- A new law fixes the rate of interest in the stuto at 10 pur cent per annum, ou Joaua ot moiiey, whero there is no ayrefcLutLit between the contracting par tit for liny niijiier rttlea. A bill ia It-tore the legislature to encoura-e the destruction of graas-uoppen, graas-uoppen, and to raLae a special fund therefor in liie state of Colro. It propose to raise by a Bnccial tax not exceeding one-half of one mill on each dolUr of taxable property in every county where the board of county commUsioueni may deem it nceary to raise such epecial fund, which shall be used for paying a bounty for the destruction of grajs-hoppere, grajs-hoppere, and graiahopper egRs at a certain rate per bushel or pound. An association of St. Louis gentlemen gentle-men is being formed to build a narrow nar-row gauge railway from that city to and ttuouh Kansas to Trinidad, Colorado, Col-orado, where it will connect with the entire narrow gauge system of Colorado, Colo-rado, with branches also to Nebraska, and Fort Worth, Texas. The people over the range in southern south-ern Colorado are sending to Utah for luppliea. A party from Ouray recently re-cently made the trip to and returned from Suit Lake in two mouths, ex ploring the route as they went. They went down the Uncompabgre and struck across the country for tho Green. They crossed the Wasatch mountains through Salina pass. They report a splendid grazing country. MONTANA. The Deer Lodge Northwest thinks that the proportion to extend the Utah Northern railroad to Montana is accompanied by a demand for a too heavy bubaidy at too high a rate of interest for the bonds; that there is no limitation n the length of tirue the bonds are to run; no reserve on the payments should the company fuil to complete the road; no provision provis-ion that the most direct and practicable practica-ble route Bhall be followed, nor as to tho determination as to whether the road is first class. If all these points were aatialactorily adjusted tba company com-pany aaks too long a tiino to complete the work. One hundred miles a year ia not quick for the building of a narrow nar-row gauge road on a route nearly all prairie. The postmaster-general baa appointed ap-pointed General Nelson A. Miles poBt-mastor poBt-mastor at the post office of Tongue River in Meagher county, Montana, at the salary of 812 a year. |