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roots, seeds, grains, and other vegetable products reaching these ports— 
Galveston, Corpus Christi, New Orleans, Mobile, Tampa, Key West, 
and Brazos (port of Brownsville). 
Border points between the United States and Mexico where most is 
to be feared are those situated on the railroads. They are five in num- 
ber: Nogales (in Sonora and Arizona), Ciudad Juarez (opposite El 
Paso, Tex.), Ciudad Porfirio Diaz (opposite Hagle Pass, Tex.), Nuevo 
Laredo (opposite Laredo, Tex.), and Matamoras (opposite Brownsville, 
Tex.). These are, respectively, on the Santa Fe (or Sonora) Railway, 
the Mexican Central, the Mexican International, the Mexican National, 
and the Matamoras and Monterey, along the Mexican side of the lower 
Rio Grande, bought by the Mexican National Railway Company to pre. 
vent (or delay as long as possible) its completion. This last-named line 
runs from Matamoras to San Miguel, connecting there with stage 
for Monterey; at the other end it connects with a short line, the Rio 
Grande Railway, running from Brownsville to Point Isabel (across the 
bay from Brazos de Santiago), on the Texas coast. 
All plants, fruits, stored grain, roots, and vegetable products of any 
description coming from Mexico should be inspected before they are 
gllowed to cross the border into the United States. In all cases espe- 
cially careful inspection should be made of living plants or roots, potted 
or otherwise, when such occur. 
