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The DawsonNews
PUbl18hed on Thursday” at Diyaon, Nev
Mexico by the
DA\VSON Wrwm OWARTMENT
PAUL K. CARSON, ‘
Director and Editor
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Writer-d amend-clann ‘ matte:
Maroh Itch, ti21, at the pqat.office al
Dawaon. hqaw Metiloo,
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OLD CAPITAN .,
PASSES INTO HISTORY
During the Mnt year a great man~
change~ bve taken place in the towr
Bite of DaweoII. Each change haf
been a milestone in the progrh oj
making our town a better .ptage ir
“which. h live, and wur ‘communi~
spirit a inora vital fome.
dur.
A few months ago, ‘b be exact,
ing the fimt week of ,Tuly, sixty o]
more frame shack kno~ am laTa”h
Tpwn” Were torn down a“d burned
in the interent of the eonsen.ation oj
the health of the commutity und fo]
the improvement of tbe physic~l ap
pearance #f tbe camp. This actior
wa~ an importnnt step in”the cleaning
up of the entire camp from’ ~uch un
eanitiry and un~ihtly places oj
abode.
Another utep in the “mme”directior
“has recently been comploted. Th!
last of “the old three-room fram,
housas on Capitan hill ha~e hetin tar,
down and hauled away.
“Like the O*r oi~ uectio.~ of p.~
eon, the houae~ on Capitan h!ll havi
their histiry. Whil@ but little of. th(
history Ims been recorded in bounc
volumes, we were fortunate enougt
to, obtiin a few fncti from’Judge Kin
ney; whQ happened ta be in a remi”ie
cent stite of mind as. the last. horn<
wns being cartud away. .,,
In 1908 there wae an’ urgent neeti
for more houses, which, by tbe wa~
was slightly befo~e th~ adveti of tht
modern portable house. A sugges
tion waa ma-de and acted. u’pen, tkf
thkre were a numbem of” three-room
houaeo atCapitan, New Mexico, whict
Might be moved inti Dawuon. A con
tract was let for the moving of tweu
ty-nine houaee. The .houaea were cul
into “three piecen, loaded o,n flat cam
and”shipped into Dawson,. where the}
were net upoq wkt b aj”ce beer
known as Capitan bill. ;
The hou~es tiere first ;ccu~ed b}
the. Itnlian ,c(dca pullem of the old
“Beehive “ coke oven~.. Sitiatid at
they”. were on the rocky surface of
the.hill, there wambut,lit$le opportun.
ity. for the cultivating of gardenB,
But this difficulty .waa overcome .by
the fimt thrifty Italian tenan~, who
haqlqd in httndre~ of loads of rich
soil. and made their gardsn~ under thti
mmt diwouraging of circumshnce~,
During recent yvara”some of the best
gardens in ;Dawmn have been ~own
on these enme pldtg.”
“In 1904 a w’stir Byshrn waa put iq
to serve. tbene-houseu and they aleo
had the distinction’ of being ,the first
to. be tired” foi’ electric ligh,ti.
But “the old order changet~~. ” AB
the ‘operation of the mjnee be~p,rne
mora extiengive, more houuei were
needed: New houses were built”on No.
6 h~,’:and New Capihit’ and’~yeni” by
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Then stop and look in the mathr.
Perhape the income. is not m large au before. Even so, INCOME ia only one.
half the stdrm The other half and bv far the more imuortsnt of the two. i OUTGO.
Are you gtifiug value received for i~?
Look over our expenses for the mat mo~th. Were they all nece aary and
really worth whilef Did you bu~ SOmethimg you really hnve little use fo
cause it was theq, or. liave you ought things beyond your means because
just be-
yo,u happened
to temporarily hnve some extra money in your pocket Or in yOur eh cklng qccount?
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.- Anuwer theoe” queation6 for ouruelf and uee if ou are uilty.
If you are not getting aheai try a new plan. #pen a ~vings Act
us next payday, wun though it ;s onl a dollar or tin dollara or twenty d
“IIE with
lars, and
*U each uucceedi~ payday de oait 1kaWiue. Do you think th.t ~o small a amount
,s not worth bother]~ about? %.” ~iM find if VCIU=ive the rdan a fair c i “c. that
YOU CnSIgetalong wfiout that ten or ~enty just-as w-~lland ~ou will havR omething
to show for it at the end of three or six months time.
YOU wi~ then wonder why you didn,t try this simple scheme years a O, for ii
u-ill give YOUa bettm faea of ha value of money, and give you a certain n isfaction
in ]ooklng Iback over the yea~s ~rk, that can ha obtained in no other way.
It is nnver too late ti commence ovnr, m start in next aydu .tith an amount
YOU feel YOU should or can put auide. Don’t put it off longer % y k] ‘i ding YO elf into
Walt]ng until you have a hundxed Or two hutied, b~cau~* that ~im~ may n ver COUIa
~nd You are losing duable .tims in the tieantime.
Start qow: Any amount webme at
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Are You Having Trouble Making “Enonviction that
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rh school mi~bt he built. In order , 15 cent copper will be seen .by the,
‘clear the ne~essnry ground for the fi~t of Jan~w.
w school building, nine of the ori~. —
81 twenty-nine houaeg were torn
wn. Since that time, as nbr Iocw
Daw~pn Hotel
John H- enbaugh Mgr.’
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Electri Lights—Steam
Heat
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ms could ‘be”~ecured for the tenanti .W~n@~~.
the remaining hou~e~, one by one I —. I
ey have been removed. One of the
uses still remain~, not bec~use Of
ntiment, but because plan~ are be.
? made b remodel the building for
manual training shop. ‘
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the houses which have been used I
r so many years, will now be avail.
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la for play ground.” No de{iqi-
Jns have as yet been mad~ for the
provement” of tbe gronnd, but it ja
mirably located for the construe.
,n of a quarter-mile oval track with
football and baseball field on the
FUII Ljne
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Jide. It is to be hoped that some
ch p“lan may be worked out. Automobile Acce., oqies
Mrs. T, L. Kin~y re~ed f- .,
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Jitn.7 Sorwic. to ill Puts of Cmm, N“ ht -w D*Y
agon Mouti last Sunhy, we ~m
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en visiting in the home ‘of k ui~, ., ,,
r uince Thnksgiti”%. “‘.
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