Indian chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1882-1902, 1884-03-06

contract. House to be completed
by the first Monday in May, 1884.
The committee have the right to
reject any and all bids.
The house shall be of the follow
ing dimensions and specifications
Of wood or stone, to wit: Twenty
one feet in width, by thirty-three
feet in length, two stories high,
with walls sixteen feet one room
in the lower story, and four rooms
In the second story connected By a
fight of stairs from the inside. To
be furnished inside of ceiling with
raised platform, jury box and bar,
with two doors below, and one door
to each room above; with eight
windows. eight lights i0x16 each,
above and below, and the whole
painted, inside and out. with lead
and oil and covered with first-eiass
shingles.
Further Specifications. IF Of
wood, TO have a good stone founda-
ton laid in mortar, 1Sinches below
the surface Of ground and six inches
above. Is inches thick. Post oak
sills. squaring Sxl0 inches, hewed
on four sides mOrtised, tenoned
and pinned together Studding 2x6
16 feet long, mortised together and
tenoned in sills; double plated
with 2x6 scantling on top, braced
on outside with yellow pine boards
1x6. notched in studding and sills.
Lower iOists 2x10, % inches from
center to center, supported in CEN
ter by dry stone piers and one row
of bridging on each side All floors
TO be best yellow pine, dressed,
tongued and grOOved, six inches
wide. one inch thick; two doors
for first story 2ft 10in. by ST. 10in.
l 1-2 inches thick four doors for
second story, 2ft. Sin n-x6ft- Sin, and
l1I-4in. thick. All windows to be
good lin sash, with weights and
locks. All door and window sills
to be of good 2xS yellow pine.
Doors to be hung with 8 1-2x3 II
| loose pin butts. Lower doors to be
fastened with heavy mortise locks,
upper doors with best rim locks.
Lower story to be nine feet clear,
with four feet wainscOting and q
| top piece with moulding under If
! the balance of the wall lathed and
plastered-two coats with hard fin
lish ceiled overhead with best 5-S
inch ceiling. Second floor joists
| 2xIO, (resting on Ike yellow pine
boards, nOtched and spiked to stud
ding placed is inches from center
to center: two rows of bridging.
| Second floor divided into -four
rooms, one door each, opening into
had 10 stairway rooms lathed
/ and - sFad-twO coats with hard
| finisf.: sides and overhead also,
with 5 inch Dashboard at bottom
stairway to be placed as committee
I NAV direct, made 4 feet wide, Of
best yellow pine, two inches thick.
| Second story feet clear collar
beams 2x6 hip rooted, 81 pitch
platform 4x12 feet on top, covered
with TIN, with trap-dOOr and stair
way leading to second floor below
rafters 2x4, except hip rafters,
which are TO be 2x6; sheathed
with one-inch boards, covered with
| Star A Star shingles, 4 1-2 inches
to the weather. Eight dormeI
windows with valleys timed.
Outside Finish-Water table and
cap; best white pine siding; dou-
BILE brackets, size 12x1S inches
placed Z feet apart square cornicc
moulding and fascia on outside
Door and window frames finished
on outside with 4 inch square cor
nice, with moulding, and 4 inch cas-
ing and blind stops. Inside, . incl
casing, with moulding. Au mater
iGl used mist Be the best. Finishing
/ lumber-white pine.
/ If of stone, the walls 10 com
mence underground as deep as may
be necessary, two feet thick to sec
ond story floor; eighteen inche:
thick from there 10 top. Stone
work dressed on outside cementeC
with good mortar solid caps anC
sills for doors and windows I; WALL
bound every three feet; 2x4 stud
ding built into waEs, TO lath anC
plaster on WOo2swGk the SAM
as in the plan for fTame house.
Sealed proposals received a
Oowala P.O-, by Lshn A.FOreman
or may be handed to either one 0
the committee within the next 3
days. All securities furnished mus
be citizens of the Nation cSigned
JOIN A. FOREMAN, d. Judge
JESSE COCHRAN, Sheriff,