The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1883-04-24
PROPOSALS FOR INDIAN SUP.
PLIES AND TRANSPORTATION.

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTE-
~ rior, Office Of Indian Affairs, Wash
ngton, March Is, 1S83.-Sealed pro-
posals, indorsed proposals for Beef,'
(bids for Beef mast be submitted In
separate envelopes Bacon, Flour, Cloth
ing, or transportation, etc., las the case
may beg, and directed to the Commits
sioner Of Indian Affairs, Nos. 65 and 81
Wooster street, NeaO York, will be re-
ceived until PM. of Tuesday, -ApTIL "a,
1888, for furnishing for the Indian service
about $4,000 pounds Bacon, 10000, 900
pounds Beef on the hoof, lS3, 600 pounds
Eeans, $4,000 pounds Baking Powder,
22O,000 pounds Corn, $4,000 pounds
Coffee, 6,5OO,000 pounds Flour, $4,000
pounds Feed, l70,SO0 pounds Hard
Bread, $4,000 pounds Hominy, 1900
pounds Lard, 1000 barrels mess pork,
So, COO pounds Rice, $500 pounds Tea,
$4,000 pounds Tobacco, 10, GOO pounds
Salt, $50, 600 pound Soap, 5000 pounds
Soda, 735 600 pounds Sugar, and 100000
pounds Wheat.
Also, Blankets, Wooden and Cotton
Goods, Consisting in part Of Ticking,
$4,000 yards; Standard Calico, 800, 600
yards; Drilling, 10000 yards; Duck, free
from ali sizing, $4,000 yards; Denims,
1900 wards; Bingham, so 900 yards;
Kentucky JeRns, $4,000 yards; Cheviot,
$500 yardF; Brown Sheeting, 100000
yards Bleached Sheeting, 10000 yards;
Hickory Shifting, 10000 yards; Calico
Shifting, 5000 yards; insey, 5000
yards;l Clothing, Groceries, Notions,
Hardware, Medical Supplies, School
Books, &C., and long list of miscellane-
Gus articles, such as Harness, PloWs,
RaAesi Forks, &C., and for about 475
Wagons required for the service
IN Arizona, Colorado Dakota,
Idaho, Indian Territory, Min
nesota, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada
and Wisconsin to be delivered st Chi
cago, 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 Francisco.
Also transportation for such of the ar
ticles, goods, and supplies that may be
contracted for to be delivered at the
Agencies.
BIDS MUST BE MADE OUT ON GOVERN.
MENT BLANKS.
Schedules showing the kinds and
quantities of subsistence supplies required
for each Agency. and the kinds and
quantities in gross, of all other goods
and articles, together with blank propo-
sails, conditions to be observed by bidders,
time and place Of delivery, terms Of con-
tract and payment, transportation routes
and sll other necessary instructions vii
! be furnished upon application to the In
dian Office in Washington, or Nos. 65 ana
81 Wooster Street, NeaU York; VIM. q.
Lyon, No. 483 Broadway. New York
the Commissionaries OF Subsistence, U.
S. A, at Cheyenne, Chicago, Leaven
worth, Omaha, Saint Louis, Saint Paul
San Francisco and YanktoD; the Post
master at Sioux City, and to the Post
masters at the following named places il
Kansas, Arkansas City. Burlington
Caldwell, Dodge City, Emporia, Eureka
Great Bend, Howard Hutchinson
Larned. Mcpherson, Marion, Medicin
Lodge, Newton, Usage City, Sedan, SteI
ling, Topeka, wellington, Wichita an
Winfield.
Bids will be opened at the hour an
day above stated, and bidders are invite
to be present at the opening.
CERTIFIED CHECKS.
al bids must be accompanied By eel
titled checks upon some United Stato
Depository for at least 5 per cent. Of ii
amount of the proposal.
II. PRICE, Commissioner.