St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-05-02
Proposals for Indian Supplies and
transportation.

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR, Office of
- Indian Affairs, Washington, April Is, 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 Inuian Affairs, Nos IS and
81 Wooster street, New York, will be received
until l p. m. of Tuesday May IS. 1886, for
furnishing for the Indian service about $4,000
270,000 pounds Beans, 1900 pounds Baking
Powder, 100, 600 pounds Corn, 495 900 pounds Coffee
100000 pounds Flour, $4,000 pounds Feed, 1885,
600 pounds Hard Bread So, 900 pounds Hominy
$4,000 pounds Lard, $50 barrels mess pork 1867
600 pounds Rice, $500 pounds Tea 100000 pounds
Salt 2as,O00 pounds Soap, $4,000 pounds Sugar,
and lis, 00G pounds Wheat.
Also Blankets, Wooden and Cotton Goods (con-
sisting in part of Ticking, $1,000 yards; Standard
Calico, 100000 yards; Drilling 1900 yards: Duck
free from all sizing, rs, 600 yards; Denins IL 600
yards; Bingham 100000 yards; Kentucky Jeans
$4,000 yards Cheviot, $500 yards; Brown Sheeting
10000 yards; Bleached Sheeting, $4,000 YARDS
5000 yards; Winsey 1900 yards;) Clothing, Gro
ceries Notions, Hardware Medical Supplies
School Books ETC., and long list OF miscellane-
Gus articles, such as Harness, PIows Rakes,
Forks, ETC., and for about 900 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 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 ap-
plication to the Indian Office in Washington, or
Nos Is and 81 Wooster street, New York: VIM.
H. Lyon, No. 4S3 Broadway, New York; the Com
missaries of Subsistence, q. S. A, at Cheyenne.
Chicago Leayenworth, Omaha, Saint Louis Saint
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 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
FIVE per cent. of the amount of the proposal
112-l32 j. d. c. ATKINS, Commissioner