Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1865-10-20
T ARGE GOVERNMENT SALE OF TIM
IL BER, LUMBER, AND ABATTlS- IN
THE DISMANTLED FORTS AROUND
WASHINGTON CITY:

WASHINGTON CITY:
HQ' Rs. CHIEF ENGINEER OF DEFENcEs,
WASHINGTON, D. c., Sept. %, 1860.
SEALED PROPOSALS are invited, and
will be RECEIVED at these Headquarters until
MONDAY, 23d Of OCTOBER, at II NJ, for
the purchase of the abattis around the several
forts and batteries hereinafter named and also
for the timber, lumber, and other materials
WITHIN the several forts and nd Pa5tereS w
Fort Marcy and batteries north of Pimmet
Run, Forts Bennett Haggerty, Woodbury.,
Cass, Albany Scott Jackson, Runyon, Berry
and batteries between Forts Craig and Berry
and at the crossing of the Colum bla turnpike
Fort Barnard and It's exterior battery and mag
azine. Forts Reynolds Garesche, Williams
and the two batteries to the east and west OF
this fort. The two batteries in the valley OF
Hunting Creek, and Fort Willard and It's eX-
terror batteries.
Also six (6) bockhouses-three atthe south
end Of the Aqueduct brid ge-one at the Lees
burg turnpike, and two in the valley OF HUNT
ing Creek.
Also, the Stockade across the south end Of
the Aqueduct bridge, and the abbatls across
the valley of Four-mile run.
ACROSS THE EASTERN BRANCH.
Forts Snyder, Ricketts,, Wagner, Davis,
Meigs, Cnaplin and the two new forts on the
right and left Of it.
Navy Y ard bridge.
NORTH OF WASHINGTON.
Forts Jameson, Thayer, Morris, Saratoga,
Bunker Hill, Slemmer. DeRussy, Smeade,
Kearny, Rossell, Gaines, Bayard, Simmons,
Mansfield, and the field batteries adjacent to
these forts.
Also, the following river batteries, viz
Vermont Martin Scott, kemble, Parrott, and
the two field batteries on the bank OF the river
Also. the Block house and Stockade on the
w l, a. E,,TtS I'M
The abattis around the several forts and
batteries is made of the tops OF trees, and IS
sllita bic for frewood
The timber frame work and heavy log roof
ing of the bomb proofs, guard-houses, maga-
zines, and i'm plement-roOms, is OF hard wood
oak chestnut, and cedar-ls generally IN gooa
condition, and may be removed without much
labor.
The lumber with which many of these build
ings are lined is sound, and may be used tor
fencing or any other purpose to which common
cuttings are usually applied
The stockades are OF hard WOOD posts, from
nine co. to twenty (2O) inches in diameter, and
generally about thirteen l3) feet long. This
timber is very valuable, and may be easily re-
moved.
The revetments consist either of posts, from
five (5) to eight (8) feet long, and from tive ~
to nine (9) inches in diameter; or OF white pine
cuttings and will be valuable for fencing.
Separate proposals will be received for the
abattis and for the timber, lumber, and other
materials in each fortand battery bove named
Proposals to be endorsed as follows, viz:
ssProposals for Abattis at Fort---,,'
"Proposals for Timber, Lumber, &c, at Fort
and addressed to the undersigned.
Proposals for the Abattis by the cord, or run
ming foot, or for timber or lumber by the foot,
will not be entertained. The bidders should
offer so much for the Abattis Of each Fort, and
so much for the timber and other material in
each Fort in the gross.
The undersigned reserves the ight to reject
any of the PROPOSALS, if deemed to the interest
of the Government to do SO.
Payments to be made in Government funds
upon the acceptance Of any proposal: and trlor
ID the removal ofthe property.
Purchasers will he required to remove TIER
property within thirty (30) days after their
proposals are accepted.
For further information, inquire at the otfcf of
of the Chief Engineer Of Defences:, corner OF
Nineteekth street and Pennsylvania avenue.
B. S. ALEXANDER,
Brevet Brig. Gen. U. 5. A.
so 27-28t Chief En- yneer ofDefences.