The shortest route from Carslbad New Mexico to Deming, New Mexico is through Texas. Eric and I have a four and a half hour drive, with a fuel stop, along this route. Heading north Artesia and then west to Deming takes six hours. South we go...
I took this photo of the southern
end of the Guadalupe Mountains
with my long lens,about 16 north
north of the Texas border.
Welcome to Texas...
This is cattle country...
... & oil country.
The southern end of the
mountain range is
in Texas.
A WIDE LOAD heads
north to New Mexico.
A salt lake &....
.... a marker about the
El Paso businessmen W.W. Mills, Albert J. Fountain and Louis Cardis vied to acquire the title to the salt flats at the foot of the Guadalupe Mountains in the 1860s. Over the years, the jostling for property rights to the salt flats angered the Mexicans on both sides of the Texas/Mexico boarder. They considered salt to be a public resource available to all under the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, negotiated at the end of the Mexican American War.
In September, 1877, two Mexicans were arrested for attempting to harvest salt. A riot broke out. Tensions continued to rise and Texas Rangers joined the fray... In the end, Mexicans on both sides of the border were forced to pay for the salt they once had access to for free. The El Paso Salt War was the struggle for economic and political rights that nearly brought America and Mexico into a second war.
78 miles to El Paso
121 miles to Las Cruces
An unfinished building
rises out of the desert.
The El Paso County
Line
The Fort Bliss water tower
has the 1st Armored
The U.S. Border Control
Museum
We drive down an
8% grade.
Here's the Runaway
Truck Ramp.
The El Paso City Line
sign
Eric took this picture of
the New Mexico sign
while I drove.
The line of signs along
the highway
Take Exit 82 A leads to
access Rock Hound, City
of Rocks & Pancho Villa
State Parks.
Eric and I stayed at Pancho Villa State Park in December, 2013.
The campground is on
this gravel road.
This sign says that the
seven mile drive is
worth it.
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