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Show Mexie.ui Cimtolll llonsen. 1 For the cuiiimerce and trade of Mexico Mex-ico there are thirty-eight custom housed in that country, nine of which are on the gulf, one cm thcUuntomnU frontier, liltcen on the Paci'lie coast, and thirteen on the frontier of the United States. Matamoras was at one time a large commercial com-mercial port, but American railroads to the upper border towns have deprived it of lite greater bulk of ilstrade, all liough the country n round is settled up and the soil is oMcopliniialiy fertile. Vera tVnz jiistiilsmt beat l'mgn so in its maritime bii:i::eis in From l'n litres. (lie principal product exported to the Unit,.,! Sl.it"s is heiiii. ija-ii fiber, a variety uf ln-mp. Of tic ports on tleJ I'acilic coat M.-f'ftilan is the iiio.-i. important, im-portant, having it population of 11,'inn, and being the died n'm;1 iog point for thu Creator parts of the slalo of Sinaloa. 'I'lio Mexican Naval llureini of the Pacific Pa-cific is located at this point, mid also a branch of the Mexican si;iial service. The custom house .'tunn siiow a constantly con-stantly belter development, especially on thy frontier lino bet ween t lift United Stales and Mexico. Mexico Moderuo, |