Wilson's Photo Shop

The Florida mountains outside Deming. This is a view of the mountains from the road that leads to Old Mexico.

One large Air Force plane and several small planes lined up on the tarmac at the Municipal Airport of Deming, New Mexico.

During cotton picking season the gin, near Deming, New Mexico, is full of wagons bringing the cotton from the fields, as well as the baled cotton that is ready and waiting to be carried away to the nation's markets.

Growing and marketing of pinto beans near Deming, New Mexico. Two trucks piled with sacks of beans say "Mimbres Valley Pinto Beans For Navahos Luna Co. Deming, N.M."

A pully system is used for loading the cotton bales on trucks at the gin.

Men are digging out an entrance underground. This is the beginning of a lead mine in the Cook's Peak region. Mining is one of the main industries of Deming, New Mexico.

Farm with haystacks at the foot of the Florida Mountains near Deming, New Mexico.

A man weighing bales of cotton at the gin near Deming, New Mexico.

The mining of agate and semi-precious stones is another business in the Deming, NM, area. The agate is removed from the ground, cut and polished, and the resulting stones are used mainly for jewelry. The colors in this moss agate ring are green and brown on a cloudy white background.

A shirtless farmer digs with a shovel as he works to irrigate the fields around Deming, New Mexico.