| Show S j G GC 7 C 1 I 1 0 daled in beff lor v t tor for tz Kirt arlt arlton lon across the T xia s il ier passing through aind 0 tre recently with a fri friend erill says saja a ne N bev e york herald writer I 1 chanced to pass the establishment of a firm of folders and re packers of dry roods goods feiore 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 yon know as asked ired my companion why those goods are put up in such small packages upon replying in the negative he continued they are to be smuggled a across cro ss the mexican line the goods are purchased in IE their original aci packages and delivered here the wooden boxes are discarded and the goods subjected au to hydraulic pressure and baled each bale contains about thirty pieces or half the number of an ordinary dry goods case the goods are then shipped to T texas aas and all marks removed when all is arranged some night the little bales are slung across the backs of mules 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 thia manner is quite extensively carried on between this country and mexico the united states getting in return for its dry goods which are the most easily handled died cheap mexican coffee and cigars of course there is 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 prove |
