DEMING, an incorporated town of south-western New Mexico, U.S.A., in the Mimbres valley, 35m. from the Mexican border, at an altitude of 4,33 2f t. ; the county seat of Luna county.
Federal highway 8o; is served by the Santa Fe and the Southern Pacific railways, and has a municipal airport. The popu lation April 1, 1930 was 3,377. Farming is carried on with pump irrigation ; there are copper mines near by ; and the Gila National Forest, in which are the Gila cliff dwellings, is 4om. to the north. A large private sanatorium for tuberculosis is situated at Deming, and there are medicinal springs in the neighbourhood.
