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Show THE TERRITORIES. Hay is now selling at Denver for 13 per ton. There are 7S1 miles of railroad in operation in Colorado. Tho Colorado constitution makers cxpei-t to complete (heir work by the end of this week. William Kosenth:!. of Santa IV-, planked uown $lri,i:uo in cash tho other day, fur a herd of 1.7O0 sheep. The Colorado Centennial commissioners commis-sioners have succeeded in placing the $10,000 appropriation voted by the legislature, so that the entire amount is uow available in the form of currency. cur-rency. Hil! city is nestled in a still smaller park than the one in which Custer city is situated. There are only three or four short streets, aud all the avail-d)!e avail-d)!e space between the surrounding hills is occupied by the 2."0 or more houses already built iu the town. A Mexican circus is giving exhibitions exhibi-tions at Pueblo. The performance consists mainly of tumbling and horizontal hori-zontal bar exercises, though an educated edu-cated pouy and some trained dogs play apart in the programme. The oer formers arn wnniLirfnl ntKlni and their feats are well worth seeing. The fast mail schedule time from New York to Denver is now three days, eleven hours and five minutes. The route is over the Hudson River and New York Central roada and their connections to Chicago, the C. B. &. Q. from Chicago to Kansas city, where close connection is made with the K. P. A writer in the Helena Independent contends that ore shipments from Montana via train, river and rail, can be made cheaper now than they could be either by the Northern Pacific or the Utah Northern railroad. He says that the expenditure of $75,000 would : make the Upper Missouri river nav-jigable nav-jigable as far as El Dorado bar withiu twelve miles of Helena. A party of fifty Mention ites arrived at the colony of their countrymen, in tho Arkansas valley, on the Atchison,., Topcka and Santa F6" railroad, recently. re-cently. Nearly 6,000 Mennonites have settled along the line of the neT road, the settlement extending to the Colorado line. They have started the publication ot a semi-monthly newspaper news-paper of a denominational character, called Our-Meimuth. Tho following comparative school statistics of Colorado for the years 1870 and 1375 are furnished by the school superintendent: 1870. 1875. Xo.of persons between 5 and 21 yi are old 6,417 23,274 No. ot ichool districts... li9 " " echools 110 280 " " teachers 1:52 377 Amount paid teachers. ,$"9,2-lS $102,7So Total school fund ?01,8;i9 ?1,J3,I0S No. of school houses... tto" 172 Value of public school property ' ff 00,106 $414,008 |