Box 13

Scope and Contents Entries on all pages ranging from individual customer purchase accounts to Huning operations including incurred expenses for the Huning Mill in Los Chavez (burned by an arsonist in 1892), etc. Journal entries reveal the nativity of the Huning Mercantile which was to grow into a regional mercantile operation. Customer entries itemize articles purchased, e.g., an entry for 13 November 1868 lists Ramon Luna's purchases: 1 pr. boots@ $10.00; 2 pr. hose @ .50; 3 lace collars @ .25; 1 pr. gloves @...

Scope and Contents Recording customer accounts. While the ledger does not reveal transaction detail, it does provide a summary of individual customer's purchases in total dollar amounts for the period, e.g., Jacobo Chavez's Jan. 13 through July 16, 1879 came to $192.34. Among the payables is "Mill Running Expenses" for the Champion Mill, but perhaps one of the larger payables accounts is that of J. Freudenthal & Co., New York from whom $20,000 to $30,000 was borrowed and paid regularly.

Scope and Contents Reveals entries in which all transaction description is described in Spanish. This ledger appears to be from a Huning branch store as the account names are not familiar from Los Lunas ledgers or account books. This may be from the Belen store.

Scope and Contents Relate to Huning, Smith & Co., El Paso, Texas. The final document, dated Aug. 7, 1882, and pinned to a leaf, is a holograph receipt for "three dollars for insertion of dissolution of partnership notice for two weeks in "The Lone Star." "The Lone Star" was one of the El Paso newspapers at the time.

Scope and Contents The Huning's foremost supplier in terms of quantity is the Simmons Hardware Co. of St. Louis who provided everything from builder's hardware to house-wares while Kendall & Emery of Kansas City represent a major source of dry goods. Kansas City's Woodward Faxon & Co. were major suppliers of seeds, food and patent remedies.

Scope and Contents Records the deliberations of the Valencia Bridge company shareholders. Jesus Ma. Luna was the first President of the company and Louis Huning and Francisco Antonio Chavez were selected to "make all necessary contracts for cost of completion of bridge." Huning, Chavez and Simon Neustadt were designated "to fix rates of toll." Antonio Salazar was appointed to "take charge of bridge and will receive for his services ten (10) per cent of all monies collected from toll." Laid in loose are 9 receipts...

Scope and Contents Inventory purchase invoices pasted on all including the rear pastedown. Total number of invoices laid-in is 499. Invoices reveal the wide variety of merchandise stocked by Huning Mercantile ranging from the first invoice from Jno. A. Lee, Albuquerque, lumber and building materials; California Sugar Refinery (C&H Sugar in 2013), San Francisco, "200 Bags Dry Granual Sugar" for $1,150.00 "NET CASH"; Oberne, Hosick & Co., Dealers in Hides, Wool Tallow, Albuquerque, acquiring from Huning...

Scope and Contents Itemized entries for each customer. Of note is the fact that during this period there were apparently few transients in New Mexico and the mercantile customer base was very stable. Also, the small number of daily transactions permitted thorough entries, e.g., on 1 October 1886 Jesus H. Sanchez bought 1 pair of gloves for $1.25 or that on 15 December 1886 Rafaela y Gonzales de Mazon purchased a Wheel Barrow for $12.00. The extensive inventory holdings of the mercantile company are reflected in...

Scope and Contents April 8, 1886, Policarpio Sanchez purchases 1 bx. candles @ $5.50, 1 Bx. Chocolate @ $3.00 and a packet of seeds @ $.25 for a total of $875. Several transactions later, the Quelites Grant is credited with 2,553 lbs. of Barley and 2,088 lbs. of Bran followed by Sol. Luna buying 2 Horse Collars, 1 pr. Rounds and 1 Coupling Pole. November 1st, 1886, finds an exceptionally rare entry in the Huning accounting records when a debit is entered for one penny with the notation "Error."

Scope and Contents Daily transactions recorded for the Luna family, an indication of their importance as Huning Mercantile customers. Estimating approximately 7,200 transactions during the recorded period of 144 days reveals an average rate of about 50 transactions/day

Scope and Contents No itemization of transactions, but there are occasional notes in parentheses that indicate "shearer", "herder," etc. indicating accounts of Huning ranch-hands or their families.

Scope and Contents Covers the period during which Louis Huning's investment in cattle turned into a financial calamity. Rising cattle prices in 1892 attracted Louis Huning to make a $25,000 investment in cattle with borrowed money. He planned to pasture the herd on the Rio Puerco where he had observed a sub-irrigated bottom for many years. But 1893 was to be the first year in a seven year drought cycle and the Rio Puerco bottom proved unable to provide sufficient pasture for the herd. In February of 1893, a...

Scope and Contents Outgoing business correspondence most with the copied signature of Louis Huning. Large number in Spanish including a Nov. 5th 1894 holograph letter to Señor Don Santiago Baca in Albuquerque in which Louis Huning informs Baca that all future alfalfa deliveries will be paid for in cash at the time of receipt.

Scope and Contents This ledger covers the period during which Louis Huning was compelled to cut back the mercantile operation as he recovered from the $50,000 cash payment he had made to his brother, Henry, in buying him out of the New Mexico operations. This was compounded by the $25,000 loss suffered in 1893 when a combination of financial panic and drought devastated a cattle venture

Scope and Contents Representing purchases invoiced to Louis Huning individually, 195 pp. with approx 800 invoices tipped in. Many of the enclosed invoices were issued by Bernalillo and Valencia Co. firms, e.g., John Becker, Wm Farr, Abeita Bros., L.B. Putney, Oscar Goebel, etc. with occasional out-of-territory examples, e.g., J.W. Bennet of Houck's Tank, Arizona Territory, invoices for 12 Navajo Blankets. A holograph 1897 receipt issued by Leon Hertzog appears to represent charges made by Huning hired hands

Scope and Contents There is no detail except the source of the entry, i.e., merchandise, water, etc. This ledger accounts for a period of about three and one-half years before and eleven months following the death of Louis Huning

Scope and Contents Appearance suggests that as this was fairly early in the Huning-Connell enterprise, someone determined that filing invoices in correspondence Boxes was preferable to pasting them into large scrapbooks.

Scope and Contents The Index of accounts at the front of the ledger lists only 19 subscribers to what was obviously the newly arrived telephone service. Huning & Connell Mercantile leads the list with 41 calls followed by the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Los Lunas Depot runner-up with 7 calls. It may be that Huning & Connell provided their telephone service to customers although this is speculative on this appraiser's part. Calls placed were to Belen, Socorro and Albuquerque. Accompanying the ledger,...

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Scope and Contents Records of daily totals of cash, credit, produce, gross, cash collections and produce collections with monthly totals. Provides a quick overview of business activity during the 5 year period.

Scope and Contents This group of over 1,000 counter receipts provides examples of the receipt (if cash were paid) or charge slip issued to customers at the time of purchase. The receipt details the purchase and with the adoption of the practice of issuing counter tickets, detailed entries in the journals was discontinued.

Scope and Contents Approx. 500 pieces of incoming mail and carbon copies of the Huning & Connell replies. One unusual item is a "Memorandum of Number and Weights of Wool Shipped to Messers. Brown & Adams, Boston, Mass." by Albuquerque Wool Scouring Mills, an Albuquerque firm that cleaned the wool of sand & pebbles before shipment to East coast brokers; this receipt, for lots 99 through 101 represents 251 bags containing 52,870 lbs. of wool for which the Scouring Mill was issuing a check for $6,317.98....

Scope and Contents Miscellaneous loose invoices representing a wide variety of merchandise from school supplies, dry goods, candy, hats, etc

Scope and Contents Due to their dealing in hay and grain, the Huning-Connell firm had a large platform scale for weighing large quantities and then deducting the tare (container weight-wagon, truck, etc.) to derive the net weight. This book is primarily a record of alfalfa loads. As hay dealers, the firm both brokered and traded in their own right.

Scope and Contents Debit and credit entries for Bank, General, Provisions, Cash, Huning & Connell, Equipment, Expenses, Auto Expense, and Horse Feed