National Republican., 1883-08-10
NTEXlCAN MAILS.
Letter from Postmaster General Gresham
10 the Mexican Director General OF Posts.

Letter from Postmaster General Gresham
! 10 the Mexican Director General OF Posts.
| The following letter relating to the inter-
national exchanges of mail matter between
the United States and Mexico was mailed yes
terday to the director general of posts in
Mexico:
SIR: The partial dscontinuance during n
considerable portion of the year Of the inter
national exchanges between the United States
and Mexico via Vera Cruz, caused by the ex.
| istencc of yellow fever lessons tho frequency
! of mail communication with those portions of
your republic served with mails from the
/ United States by sea and the moro rapid means
of transit now afforded, IL is supposed, by rail-
! road extensions from the frontier toward the
southern and western portions of Mexico,
suggest the dcsirahlCnoss of using railway ia
oilitios for transmitting mails ns early and to
! as great an extent as may be possible
The increasing importance of the CONNER
Cal relations of the two countries has eX-
cited lively interest in improved postal
facilities on the part of many citiZous of the
| United States who are now residing in
Mexico and engaged in business pursuits
there, as well as among thcir friends and
| business correspondents in this country, and
many communications are addressed to this
department on this subject.
Quite recently the Question has been asked
if correspondence for the City of Mexico may
not now he adyantageously forwarded by rail
via Laredo, Tex, and in another letter from
n gentleman at Durango, Mexico il is stated
| that the Mexican Central railway Is advance
| ing rapidly through Mexico from I'll Paso, is
now constructed and in operation to Hua-
! iaquila, several hundred miles beyond Chi
| huahua, and that letters for Durango come
most directly and in shortest time from the
| United States via El PasO.
| newspaper paragraph has been observed
also, in which it was stated that the City of
MoXico is now connected by rail with tho
| United States, via Eagle Pass, Texas.
| deem IL important, therefore, to bring the
subject thus specially to your attention with
a view TO your cooperation by such early
arrangement of your interior postal services
rs may be possible, in securing to interna-
| tional correspondence, now exchanged exclu-
svoy by sea, the advantage of railway
facilities, and l will thank you to advise mo
whenever it may be found possible to
divert with advantage from sea to
overland routes any of the correspondence
in question, of the names of the
places and states in Mexico to which corre-
spondencc now sent by sea may be forwarded
by rail, the point on the frontier at which
the mails should enter M exco, and the Mex
lean postoilices or officials or railways desig-
mated by your administration to effect the
exchange OH your side.
| With view to facilitate such alterations of
existing exchanges as you may propose,
transmit herewith a copy of the United States
Postal Guide for the present month, contain
ing on pages Al the present scheme of dis
tribution and exchange, with the latest modi-
fications l am, very respectfully, your obe-
dent servant, w. Q. GRESHAM,
Postmaster General.
The DIRECTOR GENERAL OF POsTs, &C.,
| Mexico, Mexico.