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Scope and Contents Entries focus on produce, etc. There are 29 pp. dedicated to wool and hides for which the quantities, both in pounds and dollars are quite large. Entries reflect the Huning brothers operating primarily as agents but there are entries in their own right, e.g., May 31, 1880 records L. & H. Huning consigning 12,734# of white wool, no black, to Coates Bros. "to Atchison (railroad) @ $2.70 (per hundredweight?). Illustrative of the large amounts are entries on p. 50 for 1883: Oct. 16 "Wool sold...

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Scope and Contents An entry of October 18, 1886, lists supplies for the "Champion Mill." A list of staples, sugar, coffee, soap, etc. is concluded with an entry for Whiskey which has been lined out.

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Scope and Contents Most regard routine business matters, but a number to Simon Bitterman, Denver, Colorado around June 1912 reveal a glimpse of the complexity of assembling a large ranch with a combination of fee land and leased land in the arid environment of New Mexico. Writing to Bitterman, Fred D. Huning makes clear that acreage without waterholes is of little value when it comes to grazing land

Scope and Contents Most reflect routine business matters such as the 5 April 1913 letter to the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe agent in Gallup, N.M.: "This will be authority for you to deliver car A. T. #43965, loaded with alfalfa from Bernalillo, N.M. and consigned to us at Gallup, to the C. N. Cotton Co."