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Show NEW COIN PROPOSED. According to the annual report of the director of the mint, made public the other day, a two-and-one-half-cent piece is demanded by the country, and he recommends rec-ommends passage of a law authorizing coins of that denomination of copper and nickel. "When you consider that we have no coin between the one-cent piece and the five-cent piece, and that many an article worth more than a cent and less than five cents sells for the lattor price because of the lack of an intermediate monetary unit of value,'.' says the director, ''the economic importance im-portance of it will be readily seen. Articles Ar-ticles which now sell for fifteen cents each, or two for a quarter, would soil for twelve and one-half cents. Popular Pop-ular shops, such as the five-and-ten-cent stores, would undoubtedly place articles now selling for five centos on sale at two and one-half cents.''' The director is probably right in the matter. The jump from one to five cents is too much, and there should be a medium so that the dealer may be able "to secure all tho profit that is coming to him and the customer get the worth of his money. We are not so averse to taking small coins in the west as we used to be. In tho mountain country years ago the nickel was despised de-spised and the cent piece unknown. Drinks and cigars cost "two bits" and ' the dollar could only be divided into , four parts. Now dimes, nickels and I cent pieces are found in abundance, even iu the remote mining camps, and the people of the larger cities, such as Salt Lake, have long since become used to the smaller fractions. The government used to mint copper two-cent and silver three-cent pieces, but not rnanv of them remain in circulation I ' at the present time. The two-and-one- half-cent piece will take the place of the two coins that have fallen into disuse , if the recommendation of tho director j of the mint is carried out. as it prob- j ably will be after the matter has been 1 duly considered. I |