The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1882-05-02
PROPOSALS FOR INDIAN SUP
PLIES AND TRANSPORTA-
TION.

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTE-
IL rior, Office of Indian Affairs, April
! %. 1s82.-Sealed proposals, Endorsed
l"Propossls for Beef" (bids for beef mast
be submitted in separate enVelopes) b.
con, Flour, Clothing or Transportation,
ETC.. las the case may beg and directed to
the Com missioner of Indian Affairs, Nos.
IS and 81 Wooster Street, Ne1O York,
will be received until pm, of Tuesday,
May %, 1882, for furnishing for the In
dian service about 100000 bounds Bacon,
40, 600, 900 pounds Beef on the hoof, 128,-
600 pounds Beans, 10000 pounds Baking
Powder, 100000 pounds Corn, $780,
pounds Coffee, 100000 pounds Flour,
212,000 pounds Feed, 300, OCO pounds
Hard Bread, IS 600 pounds .Hominy,
5000 pounds Lard, $50 barrels Mess
Pork 2S3, geo pounds Rice, 1920
pounds Tea, $4,000 pounds Tobacco,
100000 pounds Salt, 100000 pounds
Soap, 6 900 pounds Soda, 1,250,OOe
pounds Sugar, and $4,000 pounds
Wheat.
Also Blankets, WoeIen and Cotton
Goods Consisting in part of Ticking,
80, 600 yards; Standard Calico, 100000
yards; Drilling, 10000 yards; Duck,
free from all sizing, 10000 yards;
Denims, 1900 yards; Bingham, so, 600
yards: Kentucky Jeans, g. yards;
CheviOt, $500 yards; Brown Sheeting,
200, geo yards; Blesched Sheeting, 10000
yards; Hickory Shifting, 10000 yards;
Calico Shifting, 5000 yards; Winsey,
5000 ysrds;) Clothing, Groceries, No
tions, Hardware, Medical Supplies, and
long list of miscellaneous articles, such
as Harness, Flows, Rskes, Forks, &C.,
and for about 475 Wagons required FOR
the service in Arizona, Colorado, Dakato,
Idaho, Indian Territory, Minnesota,
Montana, Nebraska, Nevada and Wis
consin, to be delivered st Chicago, Kansas
City and Sioux City. Also for such
Wagons as may be required, adapted TO
the climate Of the Pacific Coast with
California brakes, delivered at San Fran
cisco.
Also transportation for s1cn of the ar
tieles, goods, and supplies that may not be
contracted for to be delivered at the
Agencies.
BIDS MUST BE MADE OUT ON Gov
ERNMENT BLANKS.
Schedules showing the kinds and guam
titles OF subsistence supplies required for
each Agency, and the kinds and qusnti-
ties IN gross, Of all other goods and srti-
c!es, together with blank proposals and
torms for contract and bond, conditions
to be observed by bidders, time and place
Of delivery, terms of contract and pay
ment, transportation routes, and all
other necessary Instructions will be furn-
shed upon application to the Indian
Otice In Washington, or Nos. IS and 81
Wooster street, NetU York; VIM. II.
Lyon, No. 48s Broadway, New York;
he COmmisssries of Subsistence, .. ).
A., at Cheyenne, Chiesgo, LeaVenWorth,
Omaha, SAINT Louis, Saint Paul, San
Francisco, and Ysukton; the Postmaster
1t Sioux City, and to the POstmasters st
he following named places In Kansas;
Arkansas City. Burlington, Caldwell,
Dodge City, Emporis, Eureka, Crest
Bend, Howard, Hutchison, LsTned, NC
Pherson, Marion, Medicine Lodge,
Newton, Usage City, Sedan, Sterling,
Topeka, Wellington, Wichita, and VIM
,eld.
Bids will be opened st the hour and
lay above stated, and bidders are invited
o be present at the opening. ~
CERTIFIBD CHECKS.
All bids must be accompanied by
ertifed checks upon some United
tstes Depository Of Assistant Treasurer,
or at least five per cent. of the amount
Z the proposal.
q. PRICE, COD1DliSSto1eE