Box 11
Container
Contains 13 Results:
L. & H. Huning Day Book, 1880
File — Box: 11, item: 8
Scope and Contents
Examples of amounts: Larger amounts, $2.00 for 1 sheep, or lesser amounts, $.10 for matches, Jose M Artiaga's May 8, 1880 purchases are carefully noted as are railroad purchases of 6 cans of Boston beans, 3 lbs of peaches and 12 plums bought by the N.M. & S.F. RR. Meanwhile, the Atlantic] & Pacific R.R. purchased 2 lbs. of finishing nails
Dates:
1880
L. & H. Huning Champion Mills Journal, 1881-1883
File — Box: 11, item: 9
Scope and Contents
Date, Name, Residence, Delivered (Wheat or Corn), Received (Flour, Shorer(?), Bran, Meal, Grain), Remarks, Paid. The Champion Mill, constructed at Los Chaves by direction of Louis Huning, was water powered. Provides a record of the grain crops, growers and the quantities of grain delivered to the Champion Mill
Dates:
1881-1883
L. & H. Huning Loss, From Inventory of Feb. 1, 1883, Bad Debts, 1883
File — Box: 11, item: 4
Scope and Contents
Alphabetic list of bad debtors, many with notations listing the usual reasons of "Bankrupt, Dead, and left the country"
Dates:
1883
L. & H. Huning Day Book - Record of County Warrants, 1883-1888
File — Box: 11, item: 12
Scope and Contents
Reveals transactions in which the Hunings were allowing value for Valencia County I.O.U.s, e.g., On 4 May 1887, Paul D. Stone [Valencia County Clerk] presented three warrants, #804 in the amount of $10.00 to cover stamp expense, #805 in a like amount for office materials and #803 for $33.33 to cover "Salary of Clerk." Entries represent 1,324 warrants presented during the period. Laid in loose are 9 Lists of Warrants issued at the (varying dates) Term of the Board of County Commissioners of...
Dates:
1883-1888
L. & H. Huning New Liquor House Expenses acct., 1884
File — Box: 11, item: 5
Scope and Contents
April 10th 1884 entry includes weights of grain delivered to the Huning Mill with month & day but only one year recorded, that being 12/8/82 acknowledging receipt of 9 sacks (946 lbs.) of barley from Bisente Chavez y Gabaldon. The 53 pp. of grain entries are followed by the book of accounts for New (?) Room for Liquors (3 pp.) to which follows 1885 Goods Sold not Invoiced. Two pages near the rear contain entries for the "Amt of Flour on hand in Mill June 3rd 1884"
Dates:
1884
L. & Huning Liquor Purchases Journal, 1885
File — Box: 11, item: 1
Scope and Contents
Examples of purchases include includes Gin, B. B. Brandy, Grape Brandy, Cognac Brandy, Old Bourbon 90% (frequently purchased), Bourbon XXX 70% (very frequent), Bourbon XXXX 60% (very frequent), W. S. Stone Bourbon (very frequent), Bourbon Marion Co. (very frequent), Crown Diamond Bourbon (occasional), Cologne Spirit (but once), etc.
Dates:
1885
Rents Ledger, 1885-1891
File — Box: 11, item: 11
Scope and Contents
Property owned or controlled by the Hunings and rented to others, e.g., the Los Lunas Saloon was rented to Jacobo Chavez for $100/month. Meanwhile the Old Liquor House at Los Lunas brought $3.00/mo. from tenant Frank Stein. The San Marcial Store, rented to Floersheim & Baer yielded $60/mo. and the San Marcial Saloon rent varied between $50 & $60/mo. while the San Antonio Saloon commanded $15/mo. A Los Lunas adobe only required monthly payment of $2.50 from Macedonia Castillo
Dates:
1885-1891
Los Quelites Ranch Number of Stock, 1885-1892
File — Box: 11, item: 6
Scope and Contents
Reports statistics both unusual and important. Two pages provide record of the "List of Brands Bought – Cattle" with a sketch of each of the brands and in most cases the number of cattle acquired bearing that brand. A frequent entry in the stock census is "killed by train" as Huning cattle were grazing the open range, the total for the years 1885 through 1888 is 117 cattle killed in this period. This renews meaning of the now archaic term "cowcatcher" on the front of a railway locomotive. The...
Dates:
1885-1892
L. & H. Huning Day Book, 1887-1888
File — Box: 11, item: 7
Scope and Contents
Customary Huning itemizing records. Louis Montoya purchasing a horse collar @ $1.50 and a Pr. Saddle Bags for $2.00 on October 26, 1887 and on December 21st, 1887 John Greenwald (miller at the Huning mill at Los Chaves) purchased a comb for $.25. Francisco X. Vigil visited the mercantile on January 16th, 1888 and made purchases varying from lamp chimneys to cherries, tobacco and calico
Dates:
1887-1888
Correspondence Book, 1889
File — Box: 11, item: 13
Scope and Contents
Many pages bear a rubberstamp "Louis Huning, Successor to" which appears to have been placed to the left of the L.& H. Huning letterhead following Louis Huning's acquisition of brother Henry Huning's interest in the Mercantile and New Mexico ranch and real estate interests. Louis Huning's succession to L. & H. Huning became an issue three years later when a rustler stole one of Louis's steers. Apprehended, the rustler was charged in the arrest warrant with stealing a steer of Louis...
Dates:
1889
Louis Huning Liquor Monthly Inventories, 1892
File — Box: 11, item: 10
Scope and Contents
August 8th inventory aggregates to $324.69 and one year later the total value is $216.51.
Dates:
1892
Louis Huning Cash Journal, 1892-1896
File — Box: 11, item: 2
Scope and Contents
Includes entries of many large bulk sales to the "Cienega store," many of the later entries reflect payments for work performed including payments to the Cienega store which may have been operated as a company store to provide merchandise to Huning farm and ranch hands
Dates:
1892-1896
Huning-Connell Mercantile Day Book, 1909-1910
File — Box: 11, item: 3
Scope and Contents
Daily count is broken down into Gold, Currency, Checks and Silver. The final line for each day is the entry for short or over, neither of which apparently exceeded $20.00 including carry-forward during the recording period
Dates:
1909-1910