Baltimore daily commercial. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1865-1867, 1865-10-05
LARGE GOVERNMENT SALE
TIMBER, LUMBER, AND ABATTIS
IN THE DISMANTLED FORTS
AROUND WASHINGTON CITY.

HEADQ'Rs, CHIEF ENGINEER OF DEFEYCEs,
WASHINGTON, d. c., Sept. g. 1865.
SEALED PROPOSALS are invited, and will be
received at these Headquarters, until MONDAY 23d
bs at G f h nS Of the
named; and also for the timber, lumber and other
materials within the several forts and batteries viz:
SOUTH SIDE OF THE POTOMAC.
Fort Marcy and batteries north of Pimmet Rum
Forts Bennett Haggerty, Woodbury., Cass, Cass,
Scott Jackson, Runyon, Berry, and batteries be-
tween Forts Craig and Berry, and at the crossing of
rior battery and magazine. Forts Reynolds, Care
sche, 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 its exterior
Also six (6 blockhouses-Three at the south end of
the Aqueduct bridge-one at the Leesburg turnpike,
and two in the valley of Hunting Creek.
Also, the Stockade acros the south end of the Aque
fn1t bridge and the abatts across the valley of
ACROSS THE EASTERN BRANCH
Forts ,, snydgHr Ricketts, Wagner Day; Meigs,
=, Also, the Blockhouse and Stockade at the Navy
NORTH OF WASHINGTON.
Forts Jameson, Thayer, Morris, Saratoga, Bunker
Gaines Bayard, Simmons, Mansfield and the field
batteries adjacent to these forts.
Also, the following river batteries viz: Vermont
Martin, Scott, kemble PARROT and the two field bat
teries on the bank of the river.
Also, the BlockhOuse and StOckade on the Wash
ington Aqueduct Road, near Fort Sumter.
The aballis around the several foItS and batteric
Is made of the tops of trees and is suitable for fires
wood.
The timber framework and heavy log roofing of the
bomb proofs, guard houses magazines and implement
rooms is of hard wOOd-oak, chestnut and cedar-s
generally in good condition, and may be removed
without much labor
The lumber with which many of these buildings
lined Is sound, and may be used for fencing or
any other purpose to which common cuttings are
usually applied.
The stockades are of hard wood posts from nine 90
to twenty (2O) inches in diameter and generally about
thirteen 3) feet long, This timber is very valuable
and may be easily removed.
The revetmens consist either ofposts from five % to
eight 90 feet long, and from five 5) to nine 90 inches
i'll diameter; of white pine cuttings, and will be
valuable for fencing
Separate proposals will be received for the abbatts
and for the timber, lumber and other materials in
each fort and battery above named.
Proposals to be endorsed as follows, viz:
Proposals for Abatts at Fort -"
Proposals for Timber Lumber, &C.. at Fort"
and addressed to the undersigned.
Proposals for the Abattis by the cord, or running
entertained The bidders should offer so much for the
Abbattis of each Fort, and so much for the timber
and other material in each Fort in the gross.
The undersigned the right to reject any of
the proposals deemed to the interest of the Govern
ment to do so.
Payments to be made in Government funds upon
the.acceptance of proposal and prior the re-
mova of the property.
Purchasers will be required to remove their prop
ery within thirty 3O days after their proposals
accepted.
For further information inquire at the Office of the
Chief Engineer of Defcnces, corner of Nineteenth
B. S. ALEXANDER,
Brevet Brigadier General U. S. A.,
oc 2-tO23 Chief Engineer of Defences.