The San Antonio Coal Company was organized about 1918 to mine coal in the area about nineteen miles southeast of Socorro and was named Tokay. During its prime, the town catered to about five hundred residents and supported a mercantile store, a church and a boardinghouse for miners among other establishments. There was also a two-story building that housed a pool hall on the first floor and a schoolroom on the upper floor. In the late 1940s, the mining operation closed and most of the frame buildings were moved to Socorro. Today the townsite is occupied by a private ranch. Courtesy Henry Chenoweth.

TOKAY. Former trading point 2 mi Sof US 380, on old NMM RR, 8 mi E of San Antonio. Coal was once mined here from an exensive deposit developed by B. H. Kinney. TOKAY. Post office 1919/1932. Submitted by: Samuel W McWhorter