Baltimore daily commercial. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1865-1867, 1865-10-06
LARGE GOVERNMENT SALE
TIMBER, LUMBER, AND ABATTIS
IN THE DISMANTLED FORTS
AROUND WASHINGTON CITY.
HEADQ'Rs, CHIEF ENGINEER OF DEFENcEs,

HEADQ'Rs, CHIEF ENGINEER OF DEFEycEs, !
WASHINGTON, ID. c., Sept. B. 1865. !
SEALED PROPOSALS are invited and will be
received at these Headquarters, until MONDAY, sd
of OCTOBER, at L 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, IB5aggery, D Woodbury., Cass. Cas-,
tween Forts Craig and Berry, and at the crossing of
the Columbia turnpike: Fort Bernard and its exte-
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 Aqueduet bridge-one at the Leesburg turnpike,
and two in the valley of Hunting Creek.
Also, the Stockade the south end of the Aque-
duct bridge, and the abattis across the valley of
tour-nlle run.
ACROSS THE EASTERN BRANCH.
Forts Snyder Ricketts,, Wagner Davis Meigs
Chaplin and the two forts on the right and left Of it,
Also, the Blockhouse and Stockade at the Navy
CIV ''' 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 Kembe, 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 aba4llS around the several tOitS and batterie
is made of the tops of trees, and is suitable for fires
wood.
The timber framework and heavy log roofing of the
bomb-roolS guard houses, magazines and implement
rooms Is of hard wood-Oak, chestnut and ccdar-is
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 sockades are of hard wood posts from nine 90
to twenty ~ inches III diameter and generally about
and may be easily removed.
The revements consist either of posts from five % TO
eight tS) feet long, and from five 5) to nine 90 inches
in 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 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 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 teral in each Fort, in the gross.
The undersigned reserves the right to reject any of
the proposals II deemed to the interest of the Govern
ment to do so.
Payments to be made in Government funds upon
noncompliance OF any proposal and prior to the re-
moval of the property.
Purchasers will be required to remove their prop
crty within thirty 900 days after their proposals are
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-tOZ Chief Engineer of Defences.