The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1882-05-17
PROPOSALS FOR INDIAN SUP
PLIES AND TRANSPORTA-
TION.

IMPAIRMENT OF THE 1NIE-
u rior, Office of Indian Affairs, April
%, 1eS2.-Sealed proposals. Endorsed
proposals for Beef" (bids for beef must
be submitted in separate envelOpes) Bs-
con, Flour, Clothing or Transportation,
etc., las the case may be) and directed to
the Com missioner of Indian Affairs, Nos.
IS and 81 Wooster Street, NeaO York,
will be received until pm. Of Tuesday,
May %, 1882, for furnishing for the In
dian service about 00,000 pounds Bacon,
40 600, 600 pounds Beef on the hoof 1884,
600 pounds Beans, 10000 pounds Baking
Powder, 1000 90 pounds Corn, 100000
pounds Coffee, 100000 pounds Flour,
$4,000 pounds Feed, 100000 pounds
Hard Bread, Is 600 pounds Hominy,
1000 pounds Lard, $50 barrels Mess
Pork, 233, 600 pounds Rice, 1900
pounds Tea, $1,000 pounds Tobacco,
200, 600 pounds Salt, $40, 900 pounds
Soap, 600 pounds Soda, 1,250,000
pounds Sugar, and $4,000 pounds
Wheat.
Also Baskets, Woelen and Cotton
Goods consisting in part Of Ticking,
80, 600 yards; Standard Calico, 100000
yards; Drilling, 10000 yards; Duck,
free from all sizing, 10000 yard;
Denims, $4,000 yards; Ginghsm, so, GOO
yards: Kentucky Jeans, %, 600 yards;
Cheviot, 5,2e0 yards; Brown Sheeting,
200, 600 yards; Bleached 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, PlOws, Rskes, Forks, &c,
and for about AS Wagons required for
the service in Arizona, Colorado, Dakato,
Idaho, Indian Territory, Minnesots.
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
ticles, goods, and supplies that may not be
contracted for to be delivered at the
Agencies.
BIDS MUST BE MADE OUT ON Cav
ERNMRNT BLANKS.
Schedules showing the kinds and qusn-
titles of subsistence supplies required for
each Agency, and the kinds and quaint
ties in gross, of all other goods and arti
cles, together with blank proposals and
forms 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-
ished upon application to the Indian
Office in Washington, or Nos. IS and 81
Wooster street, NetO York; VIM. 81.
Lyon, No. 483 Broadway, New York;
the Commissaries of Subsistence, U. S.
A, at Cheyenne, Chicsgo, Leavenworth,
Omaha, Saint Louis. Saint Paul, San
Francisco, and Yankton; the Postmaster
at Sioux City, and to the Postmasters at
the following named places in Kansas:
Arkansas City, Burlington, Caldwell,
Dodge City, Emporia, Eureka, Great
Bend, Howard, HutchisoD. Lsrned, Nc
Pherson, Marion, Medicine Lodge,
Newton, Usage City. Sedan, Sterling,
Topeka, Wellington, Wichita, and Win
field.
Bids will be opened st the hour and
day above stated, and bidders are invited
to be present at the opening.