St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-04-17
PROPOSALS FOR INDIAN SUPPLIES AND
TRANSPORTATION,

IMPAIRMENT OF THE INTERIOR, Office of In.
IL dian Affairs, Washington. March co. 1885,
Sealed proposals, Endorsed Proposals for Beef"
(bds for beef must be submitted in separate enye-
opes) bacon, flour, clothing. transportation &C.
Gas the case may beg, and directed to the Commits
sioner of Indian Affairs, Nos IS and g. Wooster
street, New York, will be received until 1 D. m of
Tuesday May 5, 1885, for furnishing for the Indian
service about 1,250000 pounds bacon, 40 600 900
pounds beef on the hoof, 250,000 pounds beans,
$1,000 pounds baking powder 1000 600 pounds corn,
1000 pounds coffee, SO00,O00 pounds -four S. 900
pounds feed, 195,009 pounds hard bread. $1,000
pounds hominy, $4,000 pounds lard, 1900 barrels
pork 49, 600 pounds rice, $500 pounds tea 500
pounds tobacco 1910, 900 pounds salt, 175000 pounds
soap, $4,000 pounds sugar, and $4,000 pounds
wheat.
Also, blankets, wooden and cotton goods Consist
ing in part of ticking 90 600 yards standard calico,
$4,000 yards drilling 5000 yards: duck, free from
all sizing, 81, 900 yards; denns 1900 yards gng-
ham, 100000 yards Kentucky jeans. 1000 yards;
ehevot. 1850 yards brown shceting, $4,000 yardsi
bleached sheetiRg, 5000 yards; hickory shifting,
TO- 600 yards; calico shifting, 5000 yards; winsey,
1880 yards;) clothing groceries, notions, hardware,
medical supplies, school books ETC., and long list
of miscellaneous articles, such as harness. plows,
Takes, forks &C. and for about sos wagons required
for the service to be delivered at Chicago,
City, and Sioux City. Also for such wagons may
be required, adapted to the climate of the Pacific
coast with California brakes delivered at San Fran.
cisco.
Also transportation for such of the articles goods
and supplies that may not be contracted for to be de-
Bids must be made out on government blanks.
Schedules showing the kinds and quantitie of
subsistence supplies required for each agency and
the kinds and quantities in of all other goods
and articles, together with blank proposals. condi-
tons to be observed by bidders, me and place Of
delivery, terms of contract and payment, transporta
tfon routes, and all other necessary Instructions will
be furnished upon application TO the Indian office In
Washington, or Nos. IS and 81 Wooster street, New
York; William II. Lyon, No. 4S3 Broadway, New
York; the Commissares of Subsis ence, U. S. A, at
Cheyenne, Chicago, Leavenworth, Omaha, St Louis,
St Paul and San Francisco; the postmasters at
Sioux City and Yankton; and to the postmasters at
the following named places in Kansas: Arkansas City,
Burlington Caldwell, Dodge City, Emporia Eureka,
Great Bend Howard Hutchinson, Larned, McPher-
son, Marion, Medicine Lodge, Newton, Usage City.
Sedan, Sterling, Topeka, wellington. Wichita and
Winfield.
Bids will be opened at the hour and day above
stared, and bidders invited 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 S
per cent. Of the amount of the proposal.
j. d. C. ATKINS Commissioner