Baltimore daily commercial. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1865-1867, 1865-10-07
LARGE GOVERNMENT SALE
TIMBER, LUMBER, AND ABATTIS
IN THE DISMANTLED FORTS
AROUND WASHINGTON CITY.

HEADQ'Rs, CHIEF ENGINEER OF DEFENcEs,
WASHINGTON, u. G., Sept 3, 1865
SEALED PROPOSALS are invited. and will be
received at these HEADQUARTERS until MONDAY, 23d
of OCTOBER, at Il NJ, for the purchase of the abat
It's around the several forts and batteries hereinafter
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 lleggerty Woodbury. Cass, Cass,
Scott, jackson, Runyon, Berry, and batteries be-
tween Forts Craig and Berry, and at the crossing of
the Columbia turnpike. Fort Bernard and its exte-
r9 b b9ttery and magazGe Forts Reyn2plds Care
west of this fort The two batteries in the valley of
Hunting Creek, and Fort Willard and its exterior
Also six 60 observation-disclosures at the south end of
the Aqueduct bridge-one at the Leesburg turnpike,
Also, the Stockade the south end of the Aque-
duct bridge, and the abattis across the valley of
Four-mile run.
ACROSS THE EASTERN BRANCH.
Forts Snyder Ricketts,, Wagner, Davis, Meigs
Chaplin and the tive forts the right and left of it.
Also, the BlockhouSe and Stockade at the Navy
NORTH OF WASHINGTON.
Forts Jameson. Thayer, Morris Saratoga, Bunker
Hill, Slemmer, DeRussy Slneade, kearny, Rossell,
Gaines Bayard, Simmons Mansfield and the field
batteries adjacent to these forts
Also, the following river batteries VIZ: Vermont,
Martin, Scott kembe, PARROT and the two field bat
teries on the bank OF the river
Also, the Blockhouse and Sockade on the Wash
ington Aqueduct Road, near Fort Sumter.
Inc ADAMS around the several fOIts and butterie
Is made OF the tops of trees and is stabe for fires
wood
The timber framework and heavy log roofing of the
bomb-roots, guard houses. magazines and implement
rooms is of hard w0nd-Oak, chGsnnr and cedar-is
generally III good condition, and nay be removed
without much labor.
The lumber with which many Of these buildings
are lined is sound ard 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 %
to twenty co inches in diameter and generally about
thirteen 13 feet long. This timber is very valuable
and may be easily removed.
The revements consist either fposts from FIVE % to
eight (S) feet long, and from five 5J to nine 80 inches
in diameter; of white pine cuttings, and will be
valuable for fencing.
Separate proposals will be received for the abbatis
and for the timber, lumber and other materials in
each fort and battery above named.
Proposals to be endorsed as follows, viz:
Proposals for Abattis at Fort -."
Proposals for Timber, Lumber. &C., at Fort"
and addressed to the undersigned.
Proposals for the Abattis by the cord or running
foot or for timber or lumber by the foot will not be
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 reserves 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 any proposal, and prior to the re-
moval of the property.
Purchasers will be required to remove their prop
erty within thirty 800 days after their proposals
accepted.
For further information inquire at the Office of the
Chief Engineer of Detcnces, corner of Nineteenth
B. S. ALEXANDER,
Brevet Brigadier General, U. S. A.,
oc 2-tO25 Chief Engineer of Defences.