 The result was the 7-year San Elizario Salt War, which heightened tensions between Mexicans and Americans in the 1870s.Rival railway companies began competing for rights of way.The Texas and Pacific Railway and the Galveston, Harrisburg and San Antonio Railway eventually reached an agreement to share the tracks, with a number of towns arising along the way

Hudspeth was formed in 1917 from El Paso County, Texas.