Bisbee daily review., 1916-02-06
DRUG TENDS CROSS BORDER AT DOUGLAS
 TO SECURE WANTS
Daily Scene at Custom House is Wonderful to Behold. h. ternational Line is Mecca for Countless "Hop Heads. :"


 of 20 or 30 opium smokers crossing and recrossing the international line to satiate their appetites in Chinese ''hop joint" in Agua Prieta can now be seen every day. It is one of the peculiar conditions brought about by the location on an American city alongside a Mexican town.
 While the average person might stand at the customs gate and watch these wretched people pass to and fro without suspecting the cause. of- ficers familiar with conditions are able to spot the victims block away. They pass over the line looking weary, dejected, haggard. They come back treading the air. with their eyes popping from their sockets, so nerve excited that they cant suppress their inclination to keep stirring and with the general air of a person looking for something.
 Motley Crowd.
 Women from Sixth street. negroes, men who work for living and a few persons, both men and women, well dress and good looking, apparently from the better stratum of society, whom no one, not even the seasoned officers, would suspect as being ad- dicted to the habit. make the trip i every day Some go in the morning, more in the afternoon. Few care to go  over at night. They are afraid of be- ing robbed or killed in the dark Agua Prieta thoroughfares.
 It is supposed that few fiends on ] this side are succeeding in smuggling some of the dope over occasionally. , but customs officers are hot oh their trail. it is getting to be a risky busi- ness, and that is what makes patron age to brisk over at the Agua Prieta joint. The proprietor of the latter is said to be paying license of s100 or S150 month. His profits are be- lieved to be large.
 "ln Ways That Are Value"
 What he pays for the drug or how he gets it is not known. It is sup posed to come from Guaymas. Chi nese there are said to have buried a quantity for safe keeping during the late revolutionary disturbances. It is reported that a shipment from China i is due there soon. Patrons of the re- sort buy it0on strips of cardboard.
 The price-is- four ions for 50 cents or eight for s1. Ten ions make F pills, or smokes. for the average user. ' There are 460 ions in a tin of opium. Smoking for pleasure" if a man is not much addicted to the habit, he will burn up two or three pills. A | constant user will smoke ten or twelve pills when he is breaking off the habit" Opium fiends will consume ' B to 40 pills. They they have the money. this means they will spend 8 { or s4 in an afternoon.
 But they all do not have the money. This explains why a number of the suffering fiends goover every day in the hope of ''bumming" a few smokes from some other fiend. It takes an opulent smoker, however. to be so generous, though if he happens to be ! flush he will let the other fellow cook i the pills for him in exchange for a few smokes and even pay him in addi- |. tion. The tendency is to be generous. Every smoker knows he is likely to be down and out some day.
 Proceeds s6o a Day.
 ! In addition to the patrons from Douglas, many of the Agua Prieta Chinamen smoke opium in the place. The gross proceeds are fully s60 day. Mexicans, however. are barred. Tha, seems to be the agreement with the Agua Prieta authorities. It is even said that the police have been used to keep Mexicans out of the place. | Though they seem to be under pro- tection, the Chinamen allow no one to enter as rule unless they know leading into the town, one walks to the left and opens a green door on the , near side of the house filled with babbling Chinese. The door opens ! into a corridor running northward into back yard. Turning east and then south again, the frequenter of the place finally steps down. into a cellar unlighted save for the dim glow of the opium burners.
 What the Dive Looks Like.
 The place is small-barely 15 feet square. There are four rude hunks covered with blankets besides a fifth which the Chinese generally reserve for their own use. In a corner is counter latticed off from the rest of the room. Behind it a Chinaman stands and sells the dope lige a girl at a moving picture theatre selling tickets Patrons say that at times the little dive is so crowded that white men and women have been obliged to stand and wait until Chinese smok CTS finished using the hunks.
 The price of the opium includes the use of pipe, bowl. lamp. yen hook, yen-shee gow and suey pow cloth, which are all that are need for cook