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The Bears flag has been lowered to half mast today outside Halas Hall after Mike Ditka’s passing.
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![The Old El Paso brand does have roots in the El Paso region. In the early-mid twentieth century, three El Paso-area canneries emerged as top competitors in canned Mexican foods: Mountain Pass Canning, Valley Canning, and Ashley’s Mexican Foods. Mountain Pass Canning Company is sometimes noted as the “original” Old El Paso, but the story is a bit more complicated.
In 1912, A.C. Powell moved his family from Marfa, Texas to Deming, New Mexico, where he started a tomato farm.[viii] Powell founded the Mountain Pass Canning Company in Deming in 1916 for tomato packing. He moved the operation to Canutillo, Texas (just northwest of El Paso) in 1925 and eventually expanded to canning green beans, pinto beans, green chilies, sweet potatoes, and other Mesilla Valley produce.[ix] By the late 1940s, Mountain Pass Canning sold several canned Mexican foods like taco and enchilada sauces, following the example set by George Ashley’s restaurant and cannery on the eastside of El Paso.[x] Ashley’s business was booming after getting a military contract in 1938 to provide US servicemen with Mexican food, including their innovative canned tortillas, enchilada sauce, and Spanish rice.[xi]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:t3rejuk6lgttz44ulfxzvy3g/bafkreic3g3mcacbc6apfr7hgcdo4vbfboxatd5lgrmvbc46gnzmjizgdky)
