At its peak, Dawson, New Mexico included numerous railroad facilities, ethnic neighborhoods, boarding houses, machine shops, mule barn, tipple, a 4-story company store, roundhouse, both a grade and high school, a bank, jail, dispensary, hospital, morgue, saloon, and a gym. Mine explosions occurred in 1913 and 1923. This miner played pool for spending money, turned his mining paycheck over to his mother. Union organizing began about 1934 with the U.M.W.A recognized in 1940. The town had sports teams and children played games of penny-toss and marbles. Ethnic groups defended each other in bar-fights with outsiders, though Blacks lived in a separate settlement, miles away. Still seen are remnants of coke ovens, which produced coke for the Phelps-Dodge copper smelter in Arizona. In 1950, coal production ended and the company "didn't want the union."
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At its peak, Dawson, New Mexico included numerous railroad facilities, ethnic neighborhoods, boarding houses, machine shops, mule barn, tipple, a 4-story company store, roundhouse, both a grade and high school, a bank, jail, dispensary, hospital, morgue, saloon, and a gym. Mine explosions occurred in 1913 and 1923. This miner played pool for spending money, turned his mining paycheck over to his mother. Union organizing began about 1934 with the U.M.W.A recognized in 1940. The town had sports teams and children played games of penny-toss and marbles. Ethnic groups defended each other in bar-fights with outsiders, though Blacks lived in a separate settlement, miles away. Still seen are remnants of coke ovens, which produced coke for the Phelps-Dodge copper smelter in Arizona. In 1950, coal production ended and the company "didn't want the union."
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