| Show SMUGGLING GOODS TO MEXICO baled in new york for transportation the texas border passing through hudson street recently with a friend says a new york herald writer I 1 chanced to pass the establishment of a firm of folders and of dry boods before the door were a hundred or more little bales of goods bearing odd markings but showing that they were destined for a firm in texas doing business in a town near the mexican line do you know asked my companion why those goods are put up in buch email packages upon replying in the negative he continued they are to be smuggled across the mexican line the goods are purchased in their original packages and delivered here the wooden boxes are discarded and the goods subjected to hydraulic pressure and baled each bale thirty pieces or half the of an ordinary dry goods case the goods are then shipped to texas and all marks removed when all is arranged biome night the little bales are slun across the backs of enles two bales to each animal and with an armed escort the train proceeds over the border to some distributing point in mexico where the goods are sold to mexican traders at a good profit smuggling in this manner is quite extensively carried on between this country and mexico the united states petting in return for its dry boods which are alie most easily handled cheap mexican coffee and cigars of course there ia a suspicion that the illicit traffic is known to the custom officers of both countries and connived at but that would be a hard matter to proved |
