The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1884-05-08
Proposals for Indian Supplies
and Transportation.

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERI-
~ OR, Office of Indian Affairs, WASH
ington, April %, 1SS4.-Sesled pros
posals, Endorsed Proposals for Beef"
(bid' for Beef must be submitted in sep
srste envelopes Bacon, Flour, Cloth
| ing, or Transportation, &c, Gas the case
may be,) and directed TO the Commits
sioner Of Indian Affairs. Nos. 65 and 81
Wooster Street, NeaO York, will be re-
ceived until l p. m. of Tuesday. May
u. 1884, for furnishing for the Indian
service about $40 600 pounds Bacon, 49,
600, 900 pounds Beef on the hoof, 200, 600
pounds Besns, $4,000 pounds Baking
Powde-, 100000 pounds Corn, 100000
Coffee. 1900, 900 pounds Flou-, 10000
pounds Feed, 1876 600 pounds Hard
Bread, $4,000 pounds Horniny, Is, 900
pounds Lard, 700 barrels Mess Pork,
$50, 900 pounds Rice, Z, 500 pounds Tea,
500 pounds Tobacco, 100000 pounds
Salt, 1901 0 pounds Soap, 6.0s0 pounds
Sods, $50 600 pounds Sugar, and 40, QUO
pounds Whea:.
Also Blankets, Wooden and Cotton
Goods, Consisting in part of Ticking,
20, 600 yards; Standard Calico, 135, coo
yards; Drilling. 5000 yards; Duck, free
from sll sizing. $4,000 yards: Denims,
II, 600 yards; Bingham, lao, 600 yards;
Kentucky Jeans, 28 600 yards; Chevios,
4. 500 yards; Brown sheeting, It's, coo
yards; Blesched SheetiDg, Is, 900 yards;
Hickory Shifting, 10000 yards; Calico
Shifting. 5000 yards; Winsey, 1900
Iyards;) Clothing, Groceries, Notions.
Hardware. Medical Supp. les, School
Books, etc., and loEg list of miscel-
laneous articles, such as Harness, Flows.
Rskes, Forks, etc., and for about AS
Wagons required fer the service, TO be
delivered ct Chicago, Kansas City,
and Sioux City. Aiso for such Wagons
as may be required, adapted to the cli-
mate of the Pacific Coast. with Califor.
mia brakes, delivered at San Francisco.
Also. transportation for such of the
articles, goods and supplies that may not
be contracted for to be delivered at the
Agencies.
BIDS MUST BE MADE OUT ON GOVERN.
MEET BLANKS.
Schedules showing the kind; and guam
titles of subsistence supplies required for
each agency, and the kinds and quanti-
ties in gross, of all other goods and ar
ticles, together with blank proposals,
conditions to be observed by bidders.
time and pace of delivery, terms Of
contract and payment, transportation
routes, and all other necessary instruc
| tons will be furnished upon application
to the Indian Office in Washington. or
Nos. IS and 81 Wooster street. New
York; VIM. Il. Lyon, No. 4S3 Broad
way, New York; the Commisssries of
Subsistence, U. s. A., at Cheyenne,
Chicago, Lesvenworth, Omaha, Saint
Louis, Saint Paul, San Francisco, and
Yanbt ton; the Postmaster ct Sioux City,
and to the Postmssters at the following
named places in Kansas: Arkansas City,
Burlington, Caldwell, Dodge City, EN- !.
poris, Eureka, Great Bend, Howard,
Hutch nson. Lsrped, Mcpherson, Ma
rion, Medicine Lodge, Newton, Usage
City, Sedan. Sterling, Topeka, Vel
| lington, Wichita, and Winfield.
Bids will ba opened at the hour and
day above stated, and bidders are invited
TO be present at the opening.
CERTIFIED CHECKS.
All bids must be accompanied by
certified checks upon some United
States Depository or the First National
Bank of Los Angeles, CAL, for at least
five per cent. of the amount of the pro-
possI.
81. PRICE, Commissioner.