, 1886-05-09
PROPOSALS FOR INDIAN SUP
PLIES AND TRANSPORTATION
DEPARTMENT OF TUE INTERIOR,
OFFICE OF INDIAN AFFAIRS,
WASHINGTON, April Is. 1886.

OFFICE OF INDIAN AFFAIRS,
WASHINGTON, April Is, 1886.
Sealed proposals, indorsed Proposals
Tor Beef (bids for beef must be submit
ted in separate e%nvelopes), bacon, -four,
clothing or transportation, etc. las the
case may be), and directed to the commits
sioner Of Indian affairs, Nos. G5 and g.
Wooster street, NeD York, will be
received until p. m, of Tuesday,
May Is, 1856, for furnishing for the In
dian service about $50, 900 pounds bacon,
$4,000, 900 pounds beef on the hoof, 27O,-
900 pounds beans, 1000 pounds baking
powder, 760, 900 pounds corn, 495, 900
pounds coffee, 5000, 900 pounds flour,
$4,000 pounds feed, 1856, 900 pounds hard
bread, $1,000 pounds hominy, %, 200
pounds lard, $50 barrels mess pork, 100. 600
pounds rice, 1910 pounds tea, 0O,OO0
salt. 23S, 900 pounds soap, 100000 pounds
sugar, and ll2,0O0 pounds wheat.
Also blankets, wooden aud cotton goods
Consisting in part of ticking, 20, 900
yards; standard calico, 100000 yards;
drilling. $4,000 yards: duck, free from all
sizing, 5000 yards; denims, II, 100 yards;
bingham, 240,OOO yards; Kentucky jeans.
$4,000 yards; cheviot, 8, 500 yards; brown
sheeting, 10000 yards; bleached sheeting,
$4,000 yards; hickory shifting, 10000
yards; calico s%hirting, 5000 yards; winsey,
1900 YARDS. Clothing, groceries, notions,
hardware, medical supplies, school books,
etc, and a long list of miscellaneous arti-
cles, such as harness, plows, mkes forks,
etc. and for about 600 wagons required
70. 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 Fran
cisco.
Also transportation for such of the ar
ticles, goods and supplies that may not be
contracted for to be delivered at the c
cies.
BIDS MUST BE MADE L IN GOVERN
MENT BLANKS.
Schedules showing the kinds and guam
titles OF subsistence supplies required for
each agency and school, aud 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 ininstruoti0n will be fur
nished upon application to the Indian Of
flee in Washington, or Nos. IS and 81
Rooster street, Nao York; VIM. II.
Lyon, 4s3 Broadway. New York; the
commissaries of subsistence, U. S. A.. at
Cheyenne, Chicago. L~eavenworth, Omaha,
Saint Louis, Saint Paul, and San Fran
cisco; the postmasters at Sioux City, and
Yankton; and to the postmasters at the
following named places in Kansas Ar
kansas City, Burlington, Caldwell, Dodge
City, Emporia, Eureka, Great Bend,
Howard, Hutchinson, Iarued, McPher-
son, Marion, Medicine Lodge, Newton,
Usage City, Sedan, Sterling, Topeka.
Wellington, Wichitl and Winfield.
The right is reserved by the govern
ment to reject any and all bids, and these
proposals are invited under p%roviso that
appropriation shall be made for the sup
plies 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 cert
fed checks upon some United States de-
p%ository or the First National bank of
Los Angeles, Cal, for at least free per
cent of the amount of the proposal.
II T. ATKINS (onr,5saou.r