St. Paul daily globe., 1886-05-11
M1sCE1.I.ANEn1rs
Proposals for Ilrdian Supplies and
TRANSFORMATIONS.

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR, Office Of
- Indian Affairs, Washington, April Is, 1885,
Sealed proposals, Endorsed Proposals for Beef -
(bids for Beef must be submitted in separate
envelopes,) Bacon Flour, Clothing or Transpor-
tation. etc., (as the case may be and directed to
the Commissioner of lnuian Affairs, Nos 65 and
67 Wooster street, New York, will be received
until l p. m. of Tuesday, May IS, 1885, for
furnishing for the Indian service about $50 900
pounds Bacon, SO, 100000 pounds Beef on the hoof
100000 pounds Beans, $4,000 pounds Baking
Powder 760 600 pounds Corn, 49500O pounds Coffee,
100000 pounds Flour, ST. 600 pounds Feed, 1885,
600 pounds Hard Bread, $4,000 pounds Hominy,
$4,000 pounds Lard, $50 barrels mess pork, l6O,-
600 pounds Rice, $500 pounds Tea 900 pounds
Salt, 2Ss000 pounds Soap, 1000 pounds Sugar,
and liz, ,00G pounds Wheat.
Also, Blankets, Woolen and Cotton Goods (con-
sisting in part of Ticking, 1000 yards Standard
Calico 100000 yards; Drilling $4,000 yards: Duck,
free from all sizing, $4,000 yards; Denims II 900
$1,000 yards; Cheviot, $500 yards; Brown Sheetng
175,0O0 yards; Beached Sheeting, $4,000 yards;
Hickory Shirting, 10000 yards; Calico Shrting,
5000 yards; Winsey. 2,200 yards;) Clothing Gro
ceries, Notions, Hardware, Medical Supplies
School Books, etc, and long list OF misceliane-
GUS articles, such Harness, Piows, Rakes,
Forks, etc., and for about 600 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. ~al .1s;s
BIDS MUST BE MADE OUT ON GOvFRNMENr
BLANKS. -ss-h
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 win be furnished upon ap-
plication to the Indian Office in washiugton.. or
Nos. 65 and 81 Wooster street, New York: Wm
III. Lyon, No. 4S3 Broadway, New York; the Com
missares 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 at the
following named places in Kansas: Arkansas Cty
Burlington, CALDWELL. Dodge City, Emporia
Eureka, Great Bend, Howard Hutchinson. Lar
ned, Mcpherson, Marion, Medicine Lodge. New
ton. Usage City, Sedan, Sterling Topeka, Welline.
ton, Wichita and Winfield. f;7l7
The right is reserved by the Government to re-.
ject any and all bids and these proposals are i'm
vited under proviso that appropriation shall be
made for the supplies by Congress. tc 5A
Bids will be opened at the hour and day above
stated, and bidders are invited to be present at
the opening. a''s'~7
CERTIFIED CHECKS.
All bids must be accompanied by certified checks
upon some United States Depository orSthe First
National Bank OF Los Angeles, Cal, for at least
five per cent of the amount of the preposaE; so
.1l2-132 j. D. C. ATKINS Comufissioner