Baltimore daily commercial. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1865-1867, 1865-10-13
LARGE GOVERNMENT SALE
TIMBER, LUMBER, AND ABATTIS
IN THE DISMANTLED FORTS
AROUND WASHINGTON CITY.

WASHINGTON b. c., Sept. 3, 1866.
SEALED PROPOSALS are invited and will be
received at these Headquarters until MONDAY, 23d
of OCTOBER, l. NJ, for the purchase of the abat
tbs 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 Haggerty, Woodbury., Cas-. Cqss,
tween Forts Craig and Berry, and at the crossing of
the Columbia turnpike: Fort Bernard and its eXte-
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 (G 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-
duct bridge, and the abattis across the valley of
Four-mie run.
ACROSS THE EASTERN BRANCH.
Forts Snyder Ricketts, Wagner Davis, Meigs,
Chaplin and the two forts 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 slem n Dskassy smeade klearny RosseIl
SSans BaSHd Raa 1 anSed and the field
Also the following river batteries viz: Vermont,
Martini Scott, Kemble, Parrot and the woield bat
Also the Blockhouse and StOckade on the Wash
ington Aqueduct Road, near Fort Sumter.
Inc aDal4S around the several lOItS ana Ddttel1e-
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, chesnut and cedar--is
generally in good condition. and may be removed
without much labor
The lumber with which many of these buildings
are lined is sound, and may be used for fencing
any other purpose to which common cuttings are
usually applied.
The stockades are of hard wood posts from nine 90
to twenty go inches in diameter and generally about
thirteen Q3) feet long, This timber is very valuable
and may be easily removed.
The revetmens consist either ofposts from five % to
eight 49, feet long, and from five ~ 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
entertained The bidders should offer much for the
Abbattis Of each Fort, and much for the timber
and other material in each Fort, in the gross.
The undersigned the right to reject any of
the proposals if deemed to the interest of the Govern
ment to do
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 3O days after their proposals are
accepted.
For further information inquire at the Office of the
Chief Engineer of Defcnces, corner of Nineteenth
street and Pennsylvania avenue.
B. 5. ALEXANDER,
Brevet Brigadier General, t. s. A..
oc Z-tO23 Chlcf Engineer of Defences.