St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-05-04
Proposals for Indian Supplies and
TranSU0rfafiO

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR, Office Of
- Indian Affairs, Washington, April Is, 1856
Sealed proposals, Endorsed Proposals for Beefo
(bids for Beef must be submitted in separate
envelopes) Bacon Flour, Clothing, or Transpor.
tation ETC., las 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. m. of Tuesday, May Is, 1886, for
furnishing for the Indian service about SS9, 0O0
pounds Bacon, 3S,O0O,O0O pounds Beef on the hoof,
100000 pounds Beans, $1,000 pounds Baking
Powder, 100000 pounds Corn, 495 900 pounds Coffee
100000 pounds Flour, 81, 600 pounds Feed, 1885,
600 pounds Hard Bread, $4,000 pounds Hominy,
$4,000 pounds Lard, $50 barrels mess pork, $780,.
600 pounds Rice, $500 pounds Tea, $1,000 pounds
Salt 2sS,0oo pounds Soap, $4,000 pounds Sugar.
Also Blankets, Wooden and Cotton Goods, (con-
sisting in part of Ticking, 10000 yards; Standard
Calico, 100000 yards; Drilling, $4,000 yards; Duck,
free from all sizing, $4,000 yards; Denims, 1900
yards; Bingham, 100000 yards; Kentucky Jeans,
$1,000 yards Cheviot, $500 yards Brown Sheeting,
10000 yards; Bleached Sheeting $4,000 yardsi
Hickory Shifting, 10000 yards; Calico Shifting,
5000 yards; Winsey, 1900 yards;) Clothing, Gro
ceries Notions, Hardware, Medical Supplies,
School Books, ETC., and long list OF misceIlane-
Gus articles, such as Harness, Plows, Rakes,
Forks, ETC., and for about 500 Wagons required
for the service, to be delivered at Chicago Kansaf
City, and Sioux City. Also for such Wagons al
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 blanl
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. 65 and 81 Wooster street, New York; VIM.
II. Lyon, No. 4s3 Broadway, New York; the Conn
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 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, Welling-
ton, Wichita and Winfield.
The right is reserved by the Government to re-
jet any and all bids, and these proposals are i'm
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.
112-132 j. ID. c. ATKINS, Commissioner.