This section of the Old Spanish Trail is desert in character and devoted principally to cattle raising although on the north mining is the chief industry but the country between Deming and Lordsburg is “cow country.” The encroachments of the sheep-herders on the old-time cattle ranges resulted in many a bitter feud and the crack of the rifle and revolver overruled the edicts of law and order, while might was always right. But today deeds of violence like these are unheard of and the old regime of border warfare has been succeeded by almost unbroken quiet.