Baltimore daily commercial. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1865-1867, 1865-10-09
LARGE GOVERNMENT SALE
OF
TIMBER, LUMBER, AND ABATTIS
IN THE DISMANTLED FORTS
AROUND WASHINGTON CITY.
HEApQ Ns, S u. i.NGINEER % DEFENCES,

HEADERS, CHIEF ENGINEER OF OFFENCES, |
WASHINGTON, D. c., Sept. g. 1865. !
SEALED PROPOSALS are invited. and will be
Of 0CT0BER at p H. for the purchase SEQ Of the baf
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 TILE POTOMAC.
Fort Marcy and batteries north of Pimmet Rum
Forts Bennett, IlaggeTty, Woodbury., Cass, Cass,
Scott, Jackson, Eunyy2n, Berry; and, batteries be-
the Columbia turnpike: Fort Bernard and its exte-
rl2r 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
batteries.
Also six t6 blockhouscs-Thr at the south end of
the Aquoduct bridge-onc at the LceSburg turnpike
and two in the valley of Hunting Creek.
Also the Stoc8aGe acres the south end of the AGue-
duct bridge, and the abattis across the valley of
Fourmile run.
ACROSS THE EASTERN BRANCH.
Forts Snyder, Ricketts, Wagner, Davis, Megs
Also, the Bcckhouse and Stockade at the Navy
NORTH OF WASHINGTON.
Forts jameson Thayer, Morris, SARATOGA Bunker
Hill. Slemmer, DeRu*Sy, Smeade, keamy, Rosse
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 aballS around the several foLts and battere
is made of the tops of trees, and is suitable for fires
wood.
The timber framework and heavy log roofing of the
bomb-prooiS, guard houses, magazines and implement
rooms is of hard wood-oak, chestnut and cedar-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 go inches IN diameter, ami generally about
thirteen 3 feet long. This timber is very valuable.
and may be easily removed.
The reyetments consist either ofposts, from five % to
eight 80 feet long, and from five o. to nine 90 inches
in diameter or 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 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 If 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
ery within thirty 800 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-tO25 Chief Engineer of Delences.