Las Vegas daily gazette., 1883-02-18
PROPOSALS
For Wagon Transportation
HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF
TILE MISSlIRI

The MISSOURI )
OFFICE OF THE CHIEF QUARTERMAsTER
FORT LEAvENwORTH, Kansas, February 10, s.. .
SEAbLD PROPOSALS, in triplicate, subject
- To the usual conditions, will be received at
this office until II o clock noon, on Wednesday,
March l4th, 1883, at which time and place they
viii be opened in the presence of bidders, for
the transportation of military supplies by land
on the following described routes i'm the De-
partment of the Missouri, during the fiscal year
comm -ncing July LIST, 1883, and ending June
3gth, 1884, viz:
ROUTE No. l.-Rawlns, Wyoming Territory,
to Camp Mt White uiver Agency, Colorado
Distance, IA miles. Weight of stores trans
ported during last year. !, ,2GS, 900 pounds CamD
ON Snake River, Wyoming Territory, is sup
piled by this rOuts. TRANSFORMATION not re-
qulred OF tn contractor during he mOnths of
December, January, February and March.
ROUTE NO - aldwcll. Kansas, t. Fort
Keno, |. II. ID stance, Ill miles. Weight of
stores transported during last year, l,5j2,0O0
pounds.
ROUTE No Dodge oity, Kansas, to Fort
supply, |, 7. and Fort Elliott, Texas. Distance,
to TT, Elliot I6j miles; to Fort Supply 81 miles.
Weight OF stor transported during last year,
5,2l900 pOun s.
roUTE No. o.'4'-Atchison, Topeea and Santa
Fe Railway to Fort Stanton, N NJ. Proposals
are invited from either Las Vegas, SOcorro,
San Marcial, on other point on the railway
named from which Fort Stanton may be easy
OF access by wagons. Distance from Las We
gas, lSO miles; from SocOrro, % miles; from
san Murcial, III miles. Weight of stores
transported during last year, l,140 900 pounds
ROUTB No. 5.-Deming to Fort BaVam
NJ. Distance, II miles. Weight of stores
! transported during last year, 6l2 900 pounds
ROUTE NO 6.-henrietta, Texas, to Fort Sill,
| L. ilstance 90 miles. Weight of stores
! transported during last year, 14I9 600 pounds
Contracts will not be made according to es-
| timaled distances here given, which are be-
! lieved to be correct; but bidders should salts
! ~ themselves as to the correct distances, and
make their proposals upou their own tudg-
| meut, as no ella IN for inCreasci compensation
| on account of inaccuracy of these distances
will be entertained after the contracts are
! signed.
Bidders must state the rate per one hun.
| dred pounds for the whole distance between
| the points named in any route, and per one
! hundred pounds for one hundred miles be-
| tween any and all other points wi hin the
! boundaries of any route, at which they will
| transport the stores during the period men
! toned in the vCrtisement. Separate prices
| for different months or other portions of the
| year Will not be entertained,
Bidders are requested to state the price of
| transportation at an average + tie of speed not
less than nine miles per Gay, and also a. an ay-
| erage rate Ofspeed not less than thirteen miles
| per day; but the right is reserved to reject all
| proposals for transportation at thirteen miles
| per day the cost of which shall exceed that
of nine miles per day with twenty-five pei
| cent. added.
Each proposal should be in triplicate, separ
ate for each route, and accompanied by bond
| in the sum of five thOusand(Si,000 .00) dollars
made upon the blank form furnished under
this advertisement, and executed strictly il
accordance with the Instructions printed
| thereon, guaranteeing that the bidder wilLnol
| Withdraw his proposal within sixty days sue
ceeding the l4th day Of March, S83, and that il
his proposal be accepted, and the contract fol
which he has bid, be awarded him, he will en-
ter into contract and bond agrceably to the
| terms OF his proposal within ten days after the
day on which he is notified of such acceptance
| a d award.
Proposals for transportation on any or all OF
| the routes above named will be received The
| Governmentreserves the right to reject any Oh
all proposals
Blank proposals, form of contract, ant
| printed circulars, giving full information as tC
| the manner of bidding, conditions to he OBJ
served by bidders, and terms of contract and
payment, will be furnished on application tC
this office, or to the ChieI Quartermaster, Dis
! trict of New Mexico Santa Fe, New Mexico.
Envelopes containing proposals should bt
marked-"Proposals for transportation oil
Route No." and addressed to the under.
| signed. J. d. BINGHAM,
Deputy @ NJ. General,
Bvt. Brig. Gen, U. S. A,
@C-t, Chief Quartermaster