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Growing communities often advertised in neighboring states to attract new residents.  This El Paso Herald advertisement from 1922 boasted fertile agricultural land and the "Purest Water In America" for Deming, New Mexico.
_Slater, H. D. El Paso Herald (El Paso, Tex.), Ed. 1, Wednesday, May 22, 1912.
El Paso, Texas. The Portal to Texas History.
http://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth130456/
Accessed March 1, 2013.

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