St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-04-27
Proposals for Indian Supplies and
TRANSFORMATION.

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR, Office of
IL Indian Affairs, Washington, April Is, 1885,
Sealed proposals, Endorsed Proposals for Bee"
(bids for Beef must be submitted in separate
envelopes,) Bacon. Flour, Clothing. or Transpor-
taton. etc, (as the case may be- and directed to
the Commissioner Of Inoian Affairs, Nos. S. and
81 Wooster street. New York, will be received
until / p m OF Tuesday, May is, 1856, for
furnishing for the Indian service about $50 900
pounds Be con. Ss,000 600 pounds Beef the hoof.
27o,0c0 pounds Beans, 1900 pounds Baking
Powder, f60 900 pounds Corn, 495oOo pounds Coffee,
100000 pounds Flour Sc, 600 pounds Feed. 1885,
coo pounds Hard Bread, $4,000 pounds Hominy,
$4,000 pounds Lard, $50 barrels mess pork, l60,-
600 pounds Rice, $500 pounds Tea, 100000 pounds
Salt 2Ss,00o pounds Soap, $4,000 pounds Sugar,
and IL, 00G pounds Wheat.
Also, Blankets WOODEN and Cotton Goods, (con-
.isting in part Of Ticking 20 900 yards; Standard
Calico, 100000 yards Drilling. 1900 yards; Duck,
free from al sizing. 5000 yards; DENNIS, II, 900
Is 900 yards; Cheviot, $500 yards Brown Sheeting.
l75,000 yards; Bleached Sheeting, $4,000 yards;
Hickory Shirting 10000 yards; Calico Shirting.
6.000 yards; Winsey, 2,209 yards;) Clothing, Gro
School Books, etc. and long list OF miscellane-
Gus articles, such Harness, Plows, Rakes,
Forks, etc, and Tor about coo Wagons required
for the service, TO be delivered at Chicago 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 of 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 GOVERNMENT
BLANKS.
Schedules showing the kinds and quantities of
subsistence supplies required for each Agency and
School, and the kinds and quantities in gross Of
all other goods anu articles, together with blank
proposals. conditions to be observed by bidders,
time and place Of delivery, terms Of contract and
payment. transportation routes, and all other
necessary instructions win be furnished upon ap-
plication to the Indian ONCE in Washington, or
Nos IS and 81 Wooster street, New York; Vim.
H Lyon. No. IsS Broadway, New York; the Com
missaries of Subsistence, u. S. A, at Cheyenne
Chicago. Leavenworth. Omaha, Saint Louis, Saint
Paul and San Francisco the Postmasters at Sioux
City and Yankton; and 20 the Postmasters at the
following named places in Kansas: Arkansas City,
Burlington, Caldwell. Dodge City, Emporia,
Eureka, Great Bend. Howard, Hutchinson. Lar
ned, Mcpherson. Marion. Medicine Lodge, New
ton Usage City. Sedan. Sterling, Topeka, yelling
ton wichita and Winfield
The right is reserved by the Government to re-
ject any and all bids and these proposals are in
vited under proviso that appropriation shall be
made for the supplies by Congress.
Bids will be 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
Eve per cent Of the amount Of the proposal
1l2-1S2 ]. ID. C. ATKINS, Commissioner.