Ledger and tally book

Bound ledger used for several different purposes; the last third of the book is blank. The first 29 pages contain financial entries for the grocery business of J.A. Lyons and Company in 1883. Incoming payments are registered, as are outgoing payments for store rent, office supplies, and the clerk's salary. Prices and quantities for groceries bought and sold are given. The most common items are flour, sugar, wheat, corn, salt, silk, calico, dry apples, bacon, coffee, tea, codfish, and butter. Reference is made to the loss of one of their shipments to Galveston, when the steamboat sank in the Gulf of Mexico.

The rest of the ledger entries are from New Mexico, possibly associated with Antonio Lucero. Two short accounts from 1888, in Peralta, regard lambing, wine, and cash transactions. Two pages of an inspector's log follow,of sheep shipped "out of the territory." Earmarks are drawn. A more substantial section, from p.40 to p.69, is a tally of cattle slaughtered in Gallup and Bernallilo, New Mexico, possibly from 1898 to 1899. It gives the number of animals, brands and earmarks, as well as company names and addresses. Those from Arizona selling cattle for slaughter include J. Phelan, Fowler Brothers, Goldman and Company, Brigham and Hicks, M. Smith, Tom Hagen, William Christy, C.P. Mullen, Babbitt Brothers, Alker Company, W.A. Bolton, R.L. Mullen, and J. Norton.

Names inscribed on recto of front endpaper: R.A. Lewis and Antonio Lucero.