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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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