Baltimore daily commercial. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1865-1867, 1865-10-18
LARGE GOVERNMENT SALE
TIMBER, LUMBER, AND ABATTIS
IN THE DISMANTLED FORTS
AROUND WASHINGTON CITY.
HEADQ'Rs, CHIEF ENGINEER Of DEFEYCEs.
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HEADQ'Rs, CHIEF ENGINEER OF DEFEYCEs, !
WASHINGTON, b. c.. Sept. 3, 1865
SEALED PROPOSALS are invited, and will be
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 nagserty, Woodbury., Cass, Cass
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
west of this fort The two batteries in the valley of
Hunting Creek, and Fort Willard and its exterior
Also six 6) blockhouses-I at the south end of
the Aqueduct bridge-one at the Leesburg turnpike,
and t%q a e yey OF f bt rsst
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
'l' '-'' NORTH OF WASHINGTON.
Forts Jameson, Thayer, Morris, Saratoga Bunker
Hill, Slcmmer, DeBussy, Smeade, Kearny, RosseIl
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 abalis around the several foIts 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 proofs 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
are 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 C
to twenty 2 inches in diameter, and generally about
thirteen 3 feet long. This timber is very valuable
and may be easily removed.
The revetments consist either posts from five ( to
eight 90 feet long and from five 81 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.
foot, for timber lumber BY the foot will not be
entertained. The bidders should offer SO mucb for the
Abbattis of each Fort and go much for the timber
and other material 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
the.aceeptanee OF any proposal and prior to the re-
moval of the property.
Purchasers will be required to remove their prop
erty within thirty 900 days after their proposals
For further information inquire at the Office of the
Chief Engineer of Defcnces, corner of Nineteenth
B, S. ALEXANDER,
ooo Brevet Brigadier General, U S. A.,
oc Z-tUZo Chlcf Engineer of Defences.