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Subject: BOut! History, China,. Britain and the US drug trade

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 Jardine, Matheson, the leading British firm in the China trade, 
became  interested in the Mexican National. [Economist, XL 
(July 8, 1882), p. 848.]

 The bonds of the Mexican National were issued in 1882.  
The Committee on the  Mexican National also included many 
of the group of smaller merchant houses:  Matheson; Thomas 
Collier; Robert Fleming; William Grantham, M.P.; Everett
 Gray...and Dillwyn Parrish (associated with Scottish investments 
trusts).  It may be that Matheson and Co.'s interest in the Mexican 
National, a  narrow-gauge road originally planned as a 
continuation of the Denver and Rio  Grande to Mexico City, 
was connected with silver for trade with China.

 "Dent, Palmer, another China firm, which had been active 
much earlier in the  flotation of American railway securities, 
also undertook one issue in the  late 1880's.  This issue was 
the first-mortgage bonds of the Cleveland and  Canton, a 
narrow-gauge road in Ohio.  WILLIAM RUSSELL AND COMPANY, 
an  American firm in the China trade, put out an issue for the 
Railroad  Equipment Company.  In October 1888 C.J. Hambro 
floated two issues of  American railway bonds."

Consider the fact that the original opium trading families were 
totally  dependent upon transportation.  Shipping had always 
been the method of  international trade.  The advent of railroads 
meant that the products of  trade could be distributed 
transcontinentally much easier.  If there was a  route across 
Canada, and another from the center of Canada, through 
Chicago,  St. Louis and down to Houston and Mexico and 
Central America, drug  distribution could be made much 
simpler.  Then the railroads could fan out  across the U.S. 
from St. Louis and Kansas City.

 Follow the railroads that these "China Trade" (meaning 
opium trade)  merchants controlled, and you'll find the way 
illegal booze and then illegal  drugs have always been 
distributed in this country.

> Linda


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