St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-05-12
Proposals for Indian Supplies and
TRANSFORMATION

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR Office of
- Indian Affairs, Washington, April 10, 1856
Sealed proposals, Endorsed Proposals for Beef
(bids for Beef must be submitted in separate
envelopes,) Bacon, Flour Clothing or Transpor-
tation etc.. Gas the case may be) and directed to
the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, Nos. 65 and
81 Wooster street, New York, will be received
until p. N. OF Tuesday, May IS, 1886, for
furnishing fors the Indian service about $4,000
pounds Bacon IS, GOO pounds Beef on the hoof,
100000 pounds Beans, 1890 pounds Baking
Powder. 1850 600 pounds Corn 495 600 pounds Coffee
100000 pounds Flour, So. 900 pounds Feed 1885,
600 pounds Hard Bread, $1,000 pounds Hominy,
$4,000 pounds Lard, $50 barrels mess pork l6o,-
600 pounds Rice, 500 pounds Tea SOC, 600 pounds
Salt, 2ss GOO pounds Soap, $4,000 pounds Sugar.
and liz, 000 pounds Wheat.
Also, Blankets, Wooden and Cotton Goods, ICON
sisting in part of Ticking, 90 900 yards; Standard
Calico, 100000 yards; Drilling 1900 yards: Duck,
free from all sizing $4,000 yards; DENNIS II OO9
yards; Bingham, 900 yards; Kentucky Jeans
Il, 1000 yards; Chevot $500 yards: Brown Sheeting
$4,000 yards; Bleached sheeting, $4,000 yards;
5000 yards; WinseJ, 1900 yards) Clothing Gro
ceries, Notions, Hardware, Medical Supplies,
School Books, etc., and long list OF miscellane-
Gus articles, such Harness, Plows Rakes,
Forks, ETC., and for about 500 Wagons required
for the service, to be delivered at Chicago Kansas
City, and Sioux City. Also for such Wagons as
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 and 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 will be furnished upon APP
plication to the Indian Office in Washington or
Nos. 60 and e. Wooster street, New York; VIM.
H. Lyon. No 4s3 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 to the Postmasters al 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 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 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 proposal.
l12-I32 J. D. c. ATKINS, Commissioner.