Box 7

Scope and Contents Customers names are entered along with their place of residence if outside Los Lunas, i.e., San José, Cubero, and McCarthy's Ranch

Scope and Contents Represents the record of L. & H. Huning as agents for several transportation and express companies. Mentioned in the entries: a brief summary of page headings is "Express Matter forwarded from Los Lunas Office," pp. 2 & 3; "Express Matter received in Los Lunas," pp. 4 & 5; "Passengers," pp. 6 & 7. A "Passenger" entry for Tranquelino Luna, 3 April [1879] records Luna purchasing a roundtrip ticket, Los Lunas-Santa Fe-Los Lunas, for $14.25. An earlier entry on Nov. 7, 1878, under...

Scope and Contents All purchases are itemized. Pages 142 & 143 record checks for January 83 through July 1883 issued by Henry Huning, Show Low, Arizona Territory on First National Bank of St. Louis reaching a total of $8,311.98.

Scope and Contents First entries record liquor stock on hand, succeeded by sash, blinds, doors, windows, etc. Flour House entries include corn, chili, barley, ristras chili, oats, etc. followed by an inventory of the yard that includes 6 wheel barrows, spokes (wagon wheel), wagon bows, etc. and the wholesale dry goods room where packs of pins are enumerated along with corset laces, silk handkerchiefs followed by crockery, etc. As Huning Mercantile was located in a small community where Huning was the major and...

Scope and Contents Lists names, products and cash exchange, mill operations and sheep ranching. During this period, Huning Mercantile records record only token activity and the ranching operations were the major focus of attention. Mercantile accounts appear to have been maintained primarily to purchase chuck for the family and ranches at wholesale prices.

Scope and Contents Details transactions in wheat, flour, bran, ground wheat and ground corn. The journal provides a roster of Valencia Co. grain growers during the period covered.

Scope and Contents Farm journal with alfalfa ranches produce, agricultural labor, etc. Entries record transactions involving the Quelites Grant and Cienega operations

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Scope and Contents Now operating as Huning-Connell Mercantile, the days of itemized transaction posted in the day book is past. Transactions were itemized on the counter tickets or receipts and the final sums entered in the Day Book. Names and amounts of purchase are revealed but what they may have purchased is no longer reported.

Scope and Contents Entries appear to represent money owed by and paid to ranch employees, e.g., two entries for Francisco Duran on Oct. 10, 1903 record an entry to the Cienega account, and two additional entries in which Duran receives additional credit by work of 7 months & 16 days @ $16.00 per month totaling $135.60, an additional entry for the same day credits an additional $6.45 by work cooking, shearing & lambing plus an additional $2.00 allowance for Rawhide" for an aggregate of $144.05.

Scope and Contents The mercantile source of the book is unclear